This study investigates temporary four-character compounds (yojikango) in Modern Japanese, focusing on their nominal usage. Based on the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ), 1,200 examples of “two-character compound + two-character compound” structures were extracted and analyzed from semantic and syntactic perspectives. Semantic classification reveals that “theme –action,” “object–policy,” and “institution–system” types are most frequent, indicating their close relation to social institutions and administrative activities. Syntactic classification covers eight major types, with “subject–predicate” and “object–predicate” structures playing central roles in information condensation, while “modifier–modified” and “coordinate” structures highlight logical and semantic diversity. The findings demonstrate that temporary four-character compounds function not merely as lexical combinations but as compressed syntactic-semantic units, serving as essential resources in modern Japanese expression. Future research will examine particle co -occurrence, part-of-speech shifts, and word order constraints, with potential applications in Japanese language education and natural language processing.