Quarter

"Quarter" in Japanese

クォーター

kwōtā

(basketball period)

四分の一

yonbun no ichi

(one of four equal parts — see also one-fourth)

四半

shihan

(one of four equal parts — see also one-fourth)

四半分

shihanbun

(one of four equal parts — see also one-fourth)

四半期

shihanki

(period of three months)

地区

chiku

(section of a town)

街区

gaiku

(section of a town)

四分する

shibun suru

(to divide into quarters; to divide by four)

四分割する

yonbunkatsu suru

(to divide into quarters; to divide by four)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.