4
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Translingual
Glyph origin
A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ४), a cursive form of four lines (to represent the number four) arranged in the shape of a cross (resembling +). See 4 § Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit for more.
Symbol
- The cardinal number four.
- A digit in the decimal system of numbering, and also in octal, and hexadecimal.
- (phonetics, often superscript) the pitch of a tone, either high or low depending on local convention (though not as high or low as 5, if '5' is also used)
- (phonetics, Sinosphere, often superscript) tone number 4, typically identified with light rising yang shang (陽上). May be identified with entering ru tone (入) if the yin–yang distinction is not made.
Alternative forms
The following are equivalent forms as digits:
- Arabic (Eastern) numerals: ٤
- Arabic (Western) numerals: 4
- Assamese numerals: ৪
- Balinese numerals: ᭔
- Bengali numerals: ৪
- Brahmi numerals: 𑁪
- Chakma numerals: 𑄺
- Cham numerals: ꩔
- Devanagari numerals: ४
- Dhives Akuru numerals: 𑥔
- Gujarati numerals: ૪
- Gurmukhi numerals: ੪
- Hanifi Rohingya numerals: 𐴴
- Javanese numerals: ꧔
- Kannada numerals: ೪
- Kawi numerals: 𑽔
- Kayah Li numerals: ꤄
- Khmer numerals: ៤
- Khudawadi numerals: 𑋴
- Lanna numerals: (secular) ᪄, (religious) ᪔
- Lao numerals: ໔
- Lepcha numerals: ᱄
- Limbu numerals: ᥊
- Malayalam numerals: ൪
- Meitei numerals: ꯴
- Mongolian numerals: ᠔
- Myanmar numerals: ၄
- N'Ko numerals: ߄
- Ol Chiki numerals: ᱔
- Odia numerals: ୪
- Osmanya numerals: 𐒤
- Persian numerals: ۴
- Saurashtra numerals: ꣔
- Sharada numerals: 𑇔
- Sinhalese numerals: ෪
- Sundanese numerals: ᮴
- Takri numerals: 𑛄
- Tamil numerals: ௪
- Telugu numerals: ౪
- Thai numerals: ๔
- Tibetan numerals: ༤
- Tirhuta numerals: 𑓔
- Warang Citi numerals: 𑣤
The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:
- Armenian numerals: Դ
- Brahmi numerals: 𑁕
- Chinese numerals: 四, 肆
- CJK tally marks: 𝍵
- Counting rod numerals: 𝍬
- Egyptian numerals: 𓏽
- Ethiopic numerals: ፬
- Gothic numerals: 𐌳
- Greek numerals: Δ΄, δ΄
- Hebrew numerals: ד
- Old Persian numerals: 𐏒𐏒
- Roman numerals: IV, IIII, iv, iiii
- Sinhalese numerals: 𑇤
- Tally marks: 𝍷𝍷𝍷𝍷
See also
Other representations of 4:
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English
Pronunciation
Preposition
4
- (text messaging, slang) abbreviation of for
- this is 4 U ― this is for you
Related terms
Translations
See also
Mongolian
Symbol
⁴
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- (linguistics, superscript) Used after an isolated affix or clitic to indicate that it has four variant forms, dependent on the vowel harmony of the preceding stem or word.
Usage notes
This is usually used to indicate that an affix or clitic varies between using the unrounded back vowel ⟨а⟩, the rounded back vowel ⟨о⟩, the rounded front vowel ⟨ө⟩ and the unrounded front vowel ⟨э⟩.