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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
- —ユース五輪Youth Olympic Games
- —五大力菩薩The Five Great Bodhisattvas (who uphold the Three Treasures and protect the sovereign)
- —五分前行動arriving five minutes early; being ready five minutes early; practice of always being early (to ensure punctuality)
- —五島美術館The Gotoh Museum
- —五一五事件May 15 incident (1932 assassination of Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi by young naval officers, ending party-led government in Japan)
- —弦楽五重奏曲string quintet
- —近代五種競技the modern pentathlon
- —四の五の言うto grumble about something (trivial)
- —五色青海鸚哥rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus); rainbow lory
- —モーセの五書Pentateuch; Five Books of Moses; Torah
- —ロシア五人組The Five (circle of Russian composers: Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin)
- —五右衛門風呂bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink
- —四捨五入機能round-off function; rounding
- —三公社五現業three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)
- —直木三十五賞Naoki Prize (literary award)
- —東海道五十三次fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
- —五本指ソックスfive-toed socks
- —人生僅か五十年life is short; life is just fifty years
- —五本の指に入るto be among the top five; to be one of the five best
- —五箇条の御誓文Charter Oath (of the Meiji Emperor); Five-Point Imperial Covenant; Imperial Oath of Five Articles