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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
- —五星紅旗five-starred Red Flag; flag of China
- —五無間業five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha)
- —五輪休戦Olympic truce
- —四の五の(complaining about) this and that; one thing or another
- —五行思想theory of the five elements (in Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water); five phases theory; wuxing theory
- —百五銀行Hyakugo Bank
- —パリ五輪Paris Olympics
- —五月の節句Boys' Festival (May 5)
- —五十歩百歩six of one, half a dozen of the other; scant difference
- —五輪マークfive-ring Olympic emblem
- —五本指靴下five-toed socks
- —五色野路子painted bunting (Passerina ciris)
- —モーセ五書Pentateuch; Five Books of Moses; Torah
- —十五年戦争Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War; fifteen years' war
- —五胡十六国Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China; 304-439 CE); Sixteen Kingdoms period
- —神道五部書five fundamental texts of Ise Shinto
- —五線記譜法five-line musical notation; Western musical notation based on the five-line staff
- —五次方程式quintic equation
- —五目ごはんcasserole of rice, fish or meat, and vegetables
- —五指に入るto be among the top five; to be one of the five best