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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
- —五十知命at age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven
- —五体満足with no physical defects; in perfectly good health; sound in wind and limb
- —四肢五体the whole body
- —京都五山Kyoto Gozan; the five most important Rinzai temples of Kyoto
- —むつ五郎mudskipper (Boleophthalmus pectinirostris); goggle-eyed goby
- —五段活用godan verb conjugation
- —五公五民land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half
- —五大明王five great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Trilokavijaya, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka)
- —鎌倉五山the five great Rinzai temples of Kamakura (Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jōchi-ji, Jōmyō-ji)
- —地神五代five generations of earthly deities
- —五色の賤five lowly castes of the ritsuryō system
- —三皇五帝Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (mythological rulers of ancient China)
- —五代十国Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (of China; 907-979)
- —五智如来five dhyani buddhas; five wisdom buddhas
- —五斗米道Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters)
- —五月革命May 68 (period of civil unrest in France; May-June 1968)
- —藤五郎鰯flathead silverside (Hypoatherina valenciennei)
- —五時八教division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five time periods and eight categories (theory of the Tendai sect)
- —二十五史Twenty-Five Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-five Chinese historical books (the Twenty-Four Histories and the New History of Yuan)
- —源五郎鮒Japanese crucian carp (Carassius cuvieri); white crucian carp