五

Buddhism

the five sins (murder, theft, adultery, falsehood, and alcohol)

the five passions (anger, joy, hatred, desire and grief)

A5 paper size (148mm x 210mm)

dark night in the rainy season

fiveleaf aralia (Acanthopanax sieboldianus)

pentagonal pyramid

Abbreviation

the Five Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi)

five pungent roots (in Buddhism or Taoism)

Buddhism

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

Buddhism

five hindrances (that impede ascetic practices; sensory desire, ill-will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, doubt)

Shavuot; Feast of Weeks; (Jewish) Pentecost

Christianity

Pentecost; Whitsunday

From 十日で五割

black-market loan charging 50% interest every ten days

pentagonal prism

yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis)

five strings; five-stringed instrument

Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea)

Buddhism

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)

Medicine; Anatomy

little toe

Carassius auratus grandoculis (subspecies of goldfish)

Historical term

the five planets (in ancient Chinese astronomy; Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus and Mercury)

five stars

European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

Grammar

the five basic sentence structures of English (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOO, SVOC)

Buddhism

five approaches to meditation; five objects of meditation

the five oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic)

pentagon