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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
- —五本指five-toed (socks); top 5 (counting with fingers)
- —五十日days of the month ending in 5 or 0 (when payments are often due)
- —葦五位yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis)
- —源五郎diving beetle; Japanese predacious diving beetle (Cybister japonicus)
- —五島鯨larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
- —溝五位Japanese night heron (Gorsachius goisagi)
- —五色鳥barbet (any bird of family Capitonidae)
- —五角錐pentagonal pyramid
- —五角柱pentagonal prism
- —五色鶸European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
- —五奉行the five commissioners; administrative organ of feudal Japan established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- —五大老Council of Five Elders; committee of daimyo formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan until his son Hideyori came of age
- —五等爵five ranks of nobility (in Japan; 1869-1947)
- —五香粉five-spice powder
- —五万とin a great quantity; plentifully; greatly
- —五叉路five-forked road; five-road junction
- —五箇年quinquennial; recurring every five years
- —五時教division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five periods (theory of the Tendai sect)
- —五摂家the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period
- —五七日35th day after a person's death