forty; 40

quadrangular pyramid

(Buddhism) the four stages of existence: 生有(しょうう) (shōu, “moment of birth”), 本有(ほんぬ) (honnu, “life”), 死有(しう) (shiu, “moment of death”), and 中有(ちゅうう) (chūu, “state between death and the next reincarnation”)

(game of Go) ladder

four sixes; twenty-four

four people

(Buddhism) the four kinds of suffering: birth, old age, disease and death

(collective) the four different states of the sky corresponding to the four seasons

(collective) Clipping of 四天王 (Shitennō, “Four Heavenly Kings”).

strict, stern