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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
- —五割fifty percent; half
- —五福the five blessings (health, wealth, longevity, love of virtue and dying a natural death)
- —五人five people
- —五方five directions (center, north, south, east, and west)
- —五濁five defilements; five corruptions; five impurities
- —五欲desire arising from the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch); the five desires (for wealth, sex, food and drink, fame, and sleep)
- —五歳five-year-old; five year old
- —五畿内the Five Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi)
- —五旬節Shavuot; Feast of Weeks; (Jewish) Pentecost; Pentecost; Whitsunday
- —五人組five-family unit; five-man group; quintet; five-household neighborhood unit (for mutual aid, self-protection, etc.; Edo period)
- —五寸釘long nail; spike
- —五節句the five festivals (January 7, March 3, May 5, July 7 and September 9)
- —五線紙music paper
- —五線譜staff notation
- —五大国the Five Powers
- —五大洋the five oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic)
- —五斗米small salary
- —五辺形pentagon
- —五目飯casserole of rice, fish or meat, and vegetables
- —五稜郭five-sided fortification