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Kanji Detail for 五 - "five, five times"

五

  • Meaning

    五 means "five, five times."

    1. Five - The number 5; five units.

    2. Five times - The fifth occurrence.

  • Words using 五

    • 五輪 ごりん Listen Olympic Games; Olympics; Olympic rings
    • 十五 じゅうご Listen fifteen; 15
    • 五分 ごぶ Listen half; 50%; 5 parts
    • 五十三次 ごじゅうさんつぎ Listen fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
    • 五十音 ごじゅうおん Listen the Japanese syllabary
    • 四捨五入 ししゃごにゅう Listen rounding (off; a number); rounding half away from zero; rounding off (views)

  • Four-character idioms with 五

    • 三三五五 さんさんごご Listen in groups of twos and threes; in small groups
    • 五分五分 ごぶごぶ Listen as likely as not; fifty-fifty; even match
    • 四分五裂 しぶんごれつ Listen torn asunder; disrupted and disorganized
    • 九寸五分 くすんごぶ Listen dagger
    • 五体投地 ごたいとうち Listen prostration
    • 五十知命 ごじゅうちめい Listen at age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven

  • Origin of 五

    A crossing between two lines — the tally turned over: at five, the hand is full and the count doubles back.

    How to remember it: An X caught between floor and ceiling — five, where one hand ends and the count crosses over.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 五

    • Verified meaning: five, five times
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あつむ, いつ, いつお, ご)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 五

    Given names 五(あつむ)Listen

    Surnames 五(いつ)Listen 五(いつお)Listen 五(ご)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    five

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    five; surname

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    five; 5

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    five; surname

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A number name.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    go(ゴ) ゴ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    itsu(いつ) いつ

    itsutsu(いつ-つ) いつ-つ

  • Strokes

    tip

    4 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    二 (ni)

  • Related Keywords

    five five times fifth fingers hand number pentagon quantity quintet quintuple

Sentences including 五

  • They have tea at five.

  • Five years have gone by since my father died.

  • The ship will arrive by five o'clock.

  • He has been dead for five years.

  • She will be back at five.

  • Add two to three , and you get five.

  • Maybe three to five days.

  • He will arrive on the afternoon of the 5th.

  • Do not fail to come here by five.

  • We walked about five miles.

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