Example sentences
xiàn现zài在sì四diǎn点。
It's four o'clock.
wǒ我sì四yuè月qù去。
I'll go in April.
The story behind the character
四
The earliest 四 was four horizontal lines. Then that shape got borrowed for something else (sniffling), and 四 was reshaped entirely. So 四 was once four lines, and the current shape is a squatter that took the place.
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