Example sentences

xiànzàidiǎn

It's four o'clock.

yuè

I'll go in April.

The story behind the character

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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