[四人帮 / 四人幫, sì rén bāng, ㄙˋ ㄖㄣˊ ㄅㄤ]Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution#8300[Add to Longdo]
[四个现代化 / 四個現代化, sì gè xiàn dài huà, ㄙˋ ㄍㄜˋ ㄒㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄞˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ]Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practised from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology; abbr. to 四化#26727[Add to Longdo]
[五四运动 / 五四運動, Wǔ sì Yùn dòng, ㄨˇ ㄙˋ ㄩㄣˋ ㄉㄨㄥˋ]May Fourth Movement; Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles#39857[Add to Longdo]
[四分五裂, sì fēn wǔ liè, ㄙˋ ㄈㄣ ㄨˇ ㄌㄧㄝˋ]all split up and in pieces (成语 saw); disunity (in an organization); complete lack of unity; to disintegrate; falling apart; to be at sixes and sevens#43687[Add to Longdo]
[四小龙 / 四小龍, Sì Xiǎo lóng, ㄙˋ ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄌㄨㄥˊ]Four Asian Tigers; East Asian Tigers; Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)#49921[Add to Longdo]
[二十四节气 / 二十四節氣, èr shí sì jié qi, ㄦˋ ㄕˊ ㄙˋ ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄑㄧ˙]the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods#51224[Add to Longdo]
[四声 / 四聲, sì shēng, ㄙˋ ㄕㄥ]the four tones of classical Chinese phonetics, namely level or even tone 平聲|平声, third tone 上聲|上声, fourth tone 去聲|去声, entering tone 入聲|入声; the four tones of modern standard Chinese pronunciation, namely First or high level tone 陰平聲|阴平声, Second or rising to#51339[Add to Longdo]
[四面楚歌, sì miàn chǔ gē, ㄙˋ ㄇㄧㄢˋ ㄔㄨˇ ㄍㄜ]lit. on all sides the songs of Chu (成语 saw); fig. surrounded by enemies, isolated and without help (refers to the desperate final hours of Xiangyu 項羽|项羽); lone dissenting voice#51822[Add to Longdo]
[四舍五入 / 四捨五入, sì shě wǔ rù, ㄙˋ ㄕㄜˇ ㄨˇ ㄖㄨˋ]to round up to the nearest integer; to discard four, but treat five as whole (of decimal points)#52780[Add to Longdo]
[第四纪 / 第四紀, dì sì jì, ㄉㄧˋ ㄙˋ ㄐㄧˋ]fourth period; quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180, 000 years)#57640[Add to Longdo]
[文房四宝 / 文房四寶, wén fáng sì bǎo, ㄨㄣˊ ㄈㄤˊ ㄙˋ ㄅㄠˇ]Four Treasures of the Study, namely: brush 筆|笔, ink 墨|墨, paper 紙|纸 and inkstone 硯|砚, the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship#59810[Add to Longdo]
[四书 / 四書, sì shū, ㄙˋ ㄕㄨ]Four Books - namely the Great Learning 大學|大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語|论语, and Mencius 孟子#62065[Add to Longdo]
[してんのう, shitennou](n) (1) { Buddh } the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); (2) the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)#11818[Add to Longdo]
[いっとうにひさんしょうしぎごさい, ittounihisanshoushigigosai](exp) most thrilling relationships for a man (another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife)[Add to Longdo]
[ひだりよつ, hidariyotsu](n) sumo hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the left hand and an over-arm grip with the right[Add to Longdo]
[よつみ, yotsumi](n) (1) cross-grips (situation in which each rikishi has an underarm grip on the other) (sumo); (2) kimono made for young children[Add to Longdo]