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五 kanji
five
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ゴ
Kun readings
いついつつ
Words with 五
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —五輪聖火Olympic torch
- —五輪大会Olympic Games
- —四分五裂torn asunder; disrupted and disorganized
- —五重の塔five-storied pagoda
- —三三五五in groups of twos and threes; in small groups; (in groups of) threes and fives
- —五十音図the Japanese syllabary table
- —五目並べgobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones); gomoku; Five in a Row
- —五色揚げmixed fried vegetables
- —富士五湖the Five Lakes of Mt. Fuji
- —五分咲きhalf-florescent; half-bloomed
- —五明後日four days from now (five days in some places)
- —四当五落sleep four hours and pass, sleep five hours and fail (when cramming for university entrance exams)
- —五分の一one fifth part
- —上位五番last five matches of makushita division wrestlers
- —四書五経the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics
- —五風十雨seasonable rains and winds; halcyon weather; halcyon times of peace
- —陰陽五行the cosmic dual forces (yin and yang) and the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth) in Chinese cosmology
- —五穀豊穣huge harvest (of the five grains); bumper crop; abundant crop
- —五言絶句poem of four lines, each of five (Chinese) characters
- —五言律詩poem of eight lines, each of five (Chinese) characters