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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
- —五味子five flavor fruit (Schisandra chinensis); magnolia berry; schisandra fruit
- —笹五位striated heron (Butorides striata); green-backed heron
- —五毛党50 Cent Party (Internet commentators paid by the Chinese government to manipulate public opinion); 50 Cent Army
- —五行説theory of the five elements (in Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water); five phases theory; wuxing theory
- —九寸五分dagger
- —五音音階pentatonic scale
- —五月人形Boys' May Festival dolls
- —五種競技pentathlon
- —五十音順standard gojūon syllabary order (beginning with aiueo)
- —五十年祭jubilee; semicentennial
- —五人囃子five court-musician dolls at the Girl's Festival (in March)
- —五臓六腑the five viscera and the six internal organs; inside one's body; in one's heart
- —五段動詞godan verb; type 1 verb; consonant-stem verb; u-verb
- —五分刈りclose haircut
- —五分五分as likely as not; fifty-fifty; even match; tie
- —五分試しkilling by inches
- —五目寿司sushi rice mixed with various ingredients (vegetables, fish, etc.)
- —五里霧中totally at a loss; lose one's bearings; in a maze; in a fog; all at sea; up in the air; mystified; bewildered
- —五倫の道the five Confucian filial-piety relationships
- —五輪の塔five-story pagoda