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Ꮞ 4̂ 4. Ꜭ ꜭ ④
⁴ ₄ 4 𝟺 🯴
Translingual
Glyph origin
A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari hi 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 4 § Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit for more.
Symbol
mul numeral symbol prev 3 next 5
The cardinal number four.
A digit in the decimal system of numbering, and also in octal, and hexadecimal.
mul Q118 April.
mul 1<id:Q108> 2<id:Q109> 3<id:Q110> 5<id:Q119> 6<id:Q120> 7<id:Q121> 8<id:Q122> 9<id:Q123> 10<id:Q124> 11<id:Q125> 12<id:Q126>
mul 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).
mul ˥ ˦ ˨ ˩, depending on other values
mul phonetics Sinosphere often superscript The 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.
mul ꜃ ꜆
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Alternative forms
The following are equivalent forms as digits:
digit
The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:
nondigit
See also
4 ⠑ ····– Four Delta
Category:Hindu-Arabic script
Category:Hindu-Arabic script characters
mul Four
English
Pronunciation
As en for.
en En-au-4.ogg AU
Preposition
prep
en for en text messaging slang en for.
en this is 4 U this is for you
en w:Jessica Burkhart Popular Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division 2012 147 https://archive.org/details/popular0000burk/page/147/mode/1up?q=%224+the%22 978-1-4424-1951-3 “He wrote, ‘Hey, Laurbell! What’s up? How r u & ur roomie? Mom & I miss u x a zillion! We decided 2 turn ur room into storage 4 the antiques we r going 2 buy. Hope u r finding time 2 chillax. Give Wisp a hug. G2G. Write me back! Luv, Dad.’”
en 2025-12-01 Catriona Innes I'm a party girl - could being hypnotised stop me from binge drinking? w:Cosmopolitan https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/health/a69593509/binge-drinking-hypnotism/ Or, I’ll say yes to a cocktail after a pint and then have to give my cocktail away to someone else as I can’t drink it. Last night I said "go on" to a Happy Hour offer of 2-4-1 on cocktails and then had to throw the second one away. https://web.archive.org/web/20260408225223/https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/health/a69593509/binge-drinking-hypnotism/
Related terms
en F4A F4F F4M M4A M4F M4M P4P T4T
Translations
text messaging: for
Italian: it x
Malay: ms utk
Portuguese: pt x
Spanish: es x
See also
en 2
en 8
en 4-gon
en 4-omino
en 6in4
en Camp 4
en figure 4
en V4
en Zone 4 Poblacion
en number homophones
Mongolian
Symbol
mn symbol ⁴
-аар⁴ = mn -аар, mn -оор, mn -өөр & mn -ээр
mn 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.
See also
mn ²
mn ³