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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
- —五目そばsoba with various vegetables, seafood, and meat
- —五斗味噌goto miso (miso from the Kamakura era)
- —正五角形regular pentagon; equilateral pentagon
- —五族協和five races under one union (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans; founding principle of the Republic of China); harmony of the five races (Manchurians, Han, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese; official policy of Manchukuo)
- —五体投地prostration; placing knees, hands and forehead on the ground to show utmost respect
- —冬季五輪Winter Olympics; Winter Olympic Games
- —五番目物last of the traditional set of five noh plays
- —五畿七道the five home provinces and seven districts of ancient Japan
- —第五の力fifth force; fifth force of nature
- —六信五行the six articles of faith and five pillars of Islam
- —五行六信the five pillars of Islam and six articles of faith
- —五四運動May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)
- —パラ五輪Paralympics
- —夏季五輪Summer Olympics
- —東京五輪Tokyo Olympics
- —完全五度perfect fifth
- —二五進法bi-quinary system
- —三厭五葷meat and the five pungent roots (avoided in Buddhist cuisine)
- —リオ五輪Rio Olympics (2016)
- —九時五時nine-to-five (working hours); nine to five