Illustration: Exactly four university friends sit around a square low table in a small apartment, one person on each side. Each has a separate bowl and pair of chopsticks. All four lean toward a shared plate containing one last gyoza, and their four sets of chopsticks stop just short of colliding above it.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

四よ人にん

yonin

four people

The 四 is read よ here. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. うちは４人にん家族かぞくだよ。

    We are a family of four.

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  2. ケンは4人にんのうちで一番年下いちばんとししたです。

    Ken is the youngest of the four.

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  3. 私わたしには四人よにんも姉妹しまいはいません。

    I don’t have four sisters.

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Kanji in 四人

  • 四fourOnシKunよ・よつ・よっつ
  • 人personOnジン・ニンKunひと

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