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五
Numeric
five
Common noun
five years of age
Common noun
eight o'clock (old time system)
the whole body
the five styles of writing Chinese characters
Orig. meaning
the five parts of the body (head, two hands and two feet; or head, neck, chest, hands and feet)
five times (as much); quintuple; fivefold
as likely as not; fifty-fifty; even match; tie
with no physical defects; in perfectly good health; sound in wind and limb
Common noun
five colors (usu. red, blue, yellow, white and black); five colours
Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
many kinds; varied
Common noun
melon; gourd
fifth court rank
Abbreviation
black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax); night heron
Buddhism
five ranks; five stages
Abbreviation; Grammar
godan (verb, verb conjugation)
fifth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)
Buddhism
the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void)
Abbreviation; Buddhism
five great wisdom kings
Obsolete term
fifth month of the lunar calendar
Word usually written using kana alone
satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum)
one fifth part
the five elements (in Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water); the five phases; wu xing
Buddhism
five practices of the Bodhisattvas
the five pillars of Islam
five-family unit; five-man group; quintet
Archaic
five-household neighborhood unit (for mutual aid, self-protection, etc.; Edo period)