A yojijukugo (Japanese: 四字熟語) is a Japanese lexeme consisting of four kanji (Chinese characters). English translations of yojijukugo include "four-character compound",[1] "four-character idiom", "four-character idiomatic phrase", and "four-character idiomatic compound". It is equivalent to the Chinese chengyu.[2]
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- ^ 兪, 鳴蒙 (2018). "日中四字熟語・成語に関する調査研究". The Setsudai Review of Humanities and Social Sciences (in Japanese) (25): 117–136.
日中両国は千年以上にわたる文化交流があり、日本語の四字熟語・中国語の成語（大部分が漢字四文字で構成されている）も共通あるいは類似のものも少なくない。