四 (sì) means Four. Below are 18 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
一年有 四 个季节。
Yì nián yǒu sì gè jìjié.
There are four seasons in a year.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 季节
请把蛋糕分成 四 块。
Qǐng bǎ dàngāo fēnchéng sì kuài.
Please divide the cake into four pieces.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 分
他看着年轻，其实已经 四 十岁了。
Tā kàn zhe niánqīng, qíshí yǐjing sìshí suì le.
He looks young, but he's actually already forty.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 其实
From the graded readers
四 个小时以后，火车到了上海。
sì gè xiǎoshí yǐhòu, huǒchē dàole shànghǎi.
Four hours later the train arrived in Shanghai.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
它在 四 楼，每天上楼有点儿累。
tā zài sì lóu, měitiān shàng lóu yǒudiǎn ér lèi / léi / lěi.
It's on the fourth floor, so going up is a bit tiring.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room
她手里拿着 四 五个很重的袋子。
tā shǒulǐ názhe sì wǔ gè hěn zhòng / chóng de / dì dàizi.
She was holding four or five heavy bags.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
第二天早上 四 点，我们就起床了。
dì'èr tiān zǎoshang sì diǎn, wǒmen jiù qǐchuáng le / liǎo / liào.
On the second morning we got up at four.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Trip With Friends
到公司的时候，已经八点 四 十了。
dào gōngsī de / dì shíhou, yǐjīng bā diǎn sìshí le / liǎo / liào.
When I got to the office it was already 8:40.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
我说：“ 四 年就这么点儿东西？”
wǒ shuō:" sìnián jiù zhème diǎn ér dōngxī?"
I said, "Four years and that's all you've got?"
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
她只回了 四 个字：“早就没事了。”
tā zhī huí le / liǎo / liào sì gè zì:" zǎo jiù méi shì le / liǎo / liào."
She replied with four words: "It was fine long ago."
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
我家有 四 个人：爸爸、妈妈、哥哥和我。
wǒ jiā yǒu sì gèrén: bàba, māma, gēge hé wǒ.
There are four people in my family: dad, mum, my older brother and me.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Family
那家公司在市中心，坐地铁要 四 十分钟。
nà / nèi jiā gōngsī zài shì zhōngxīn, zuò dìtiě yāo sìshí fēnzhōng.
The company is in the city centre, forty minutes by underground.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
照片上有 四 个年轻人，站在一棵大树下面。
zhàopiàn shàng yǒu sì gè niánqīngrén, zhàn zài yī kē dàshù xiàmian.
There were four young people in it, standing under a big tree.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
那条消息是她十 四 岁的弟弟发的，本来是开玩笑。
nà / nèi tiáo xiāoxi shì tā shísì suì de / dì dìdi fā de / dì, běnlái shì kāiwánxiào.
The message had been sent by her fourteen-year-old brother, as a joke.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
四 年里说了那么多话，最后十分钟反而说不出来。
sìnián lǐ shuōle nàme duō huà, zuìhòu shífēn zhōng fǎn'ér shuō bùchū lái.
Four years of talking, and in the last ten minutes we couldn't manage anything.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
我们认识 四 年了，从大学一年级开始就住在一个宿舍。
wǒmen rènshi sìnián le / liǎo / liào, cóng dàxué yī niánjí kāishǐ jiù zhù zài yīgè sùshè.
We'd known each other four years, sharing a dorm since our first year at university.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
Questions about 四
How is 四 used in a sentence?
This page shows 18 sentences using 四 (sì, "Four"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 四 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 四 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 四 an HSK word?
Yes — 四 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 四?
The dictionary page for 四 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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