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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
- —五辛five pungent roots (in Buddhism or Taoism)
- —五代Five Dynasties (of China; 907-979)
- —五黄fifth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and central)
- —五味five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes; five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); the five periods of the Buddha's teachings
- —五舎five residences for court ladies (in the inner Heian Palace)
- —五七five and seven; 35th day after a person's death
- —五果five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut); five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships; five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life
- —五畿the Five Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi)
- —五位fifth court rank; black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax); night heron; five ranks; five stages
- —五度fifth (interval)
- —五内the five viscera (liver, lungs, heart, kidney and spleen)
- —五衰five signs of the impending death of a heavenly being
- —五障five hindrances (that prevent a woman from becoming a Buddha, a Brahmā, a Shakra, a devil king, or a wheel-turning king); five obstructions to women's attainment; five hindrances (that impede ascetic practices; sensory desire, ill-will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, doubt)
- —五言Chinese poem with five characters per line
- —五菜the five vegetables (garlic chive, Japanese leek, green onion, wasabi and mame); (meal of) five dishes
- —五逆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); crime of killing one's master, father, grandfather, mother, or grandmother
- —五世five generations; fifth generation immigrant; gosei; the fifth (e.g. George V)
- —五玉soroban bead with value five
- —五星the five planets (in ancient Chinese astronomy; Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus and Mercury); five stars
- —十五black-market loan charging 50% interest every ten days