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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
- —五男fifth son
- —五本five (long cylindrical things)
- —五分dividing into five parts
- —五音pentatonic scale
- —五葉Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai); goyoumatsu
- —五山five most important temples of a region
- —五夜division of the night (from approx. 7pm to 5am) into five 2-hour periods; the fifth of these periods (approx. 3am to 5am)
- —五明the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)
- —五角pentagon
- —五蘊the five skandhas (matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness); the five aggregates
- —五眼the five eyes (physical eye, heavenly eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye and Buddha eye)
- —五胡Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China in 300-500 CE: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)
- —五大the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void); five great wisdom kings
- —五爵five ranks of nobility (in Japan; 1868-1946)
- —五賤five lowly castes of the ritsuryō system
- —五刑five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death); five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
- —五罪five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death); five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)
- —五光the five 20-point cards (high-scoring meld)
- —五陰the five skandhas (matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness); the five aggregates
- —五葷five pungent roots (in Buddhism or Taoism)