五

Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai)

soroban bead with value five

35th day after a person's death

Mathematics

quintic equation

five and seven-syllable meter

killing by inches

five-story pagoda

Buddhism

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

Buddhism

five dhyani buddhas; five wisdom buddhas

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

sushi rice mixed with various ingredients (vegetables, fish, etc.)

dark night in the rainy season

Olympic torch

soba with various vegetables, seafood, and meat

fiveleaf aralia (Acanthopanax sieboldianus)

pentagonal pyramid

Charter Oath (of the Meiji Emperor); Five-Point Imperial Covenant; Imperial Oath of Five Articles

May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)

Abbreviation

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

five pungent roots (in Buddhism or Taoism)

Buddhism

division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five time periods and eight categories (theory of the Tendai sect)

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)

last of the traditional set of five noh plays

Shavuot; Feast of Weeks; (Jewish) Pentecost

Christianity

Pentecost; Whitsunday