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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
- —四の五の言わずwithout complaining (about this and that); without arguing; without grumbling; with good grace
- —人の噂も七十五日a wonder lasts but nine days; gossip lasts just 75 days
- —第五世代コンピュータFifth Generation Computer System; FGCS
- —一寸の虫にも五分の魂tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them
- —一盗二婢三妾四妓五妻(the most thrilling relationships for a man are) another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife
- —明日の百より今日の五十a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; fifty today is better than a hundred tomorrow
- —五絃five strings; five-stringed instrument
- —五蔵the five viscera (liver, lungs, heart, kidney and spleen)
- —端五Boys' Day celebration (May 5); Dragon Boat Festival (China)
- —五分five minutes
- —五百500; five hundred; many
- —五形Jersey cudweed (species of cottonweed, Gnaphalium affine)
- —五菓five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut)
- —単五N battery; N cell
- —小五fifth year of elementary school; fifth year elementary school student
- —五時five o'clock
- —五才five-year-old; five year old
- —五節供the five festivals (January 7, March 3, May 5, July 7 and September 9)
- —五目鮨sushi rice mixed with various ingredients (vegetables, fish, etc.)
- —五大洲the five continents; Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia; Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America