"Yon" vs. "Shi" in school names I've tried Voicetext.jp and Google's text to voice service to read this > It reads something like > Yon-chū no But Google suggested this romanization, which left me doubtful > Shi-chū no So, I have been redirected to a similar question discussing why there is different pronunciations of the numbers 4, 7 and 9 (maybe there's more). From the given answers, I can't decide how to read things like > Because none of the examples addressed there were close enough to school names, rankings and such...

In your case, it is fairly easy: do not think that is an isolated entity. It comes with , with ``, meaning `The fourth`.

In this case, whenever you encounter a counter, go with the . This was highlighted in the answer you linked:

> Kunyomi is typically used in cases where you point out you have X of some item.

For example, you would say to count flat things, to count cylindrical things, which is another way of saying fourth, to count animals and so on...