Kanji: 五

Words containing that kanji:

• 人の噂も七十五日 - ひとのうわさもしちじゅうごにち - Wonder lasts but nine days
• 人生僅か五十年 - じんせいわずかごじゅうねん - Life is short
• 明日の百より今日の五十 - あすのひゃくよりきょうのごじゅう - A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• 一寸の虫にも五分の魂 - いっすんのむしにもごぶのたましい - Tread on a worm and it will turn
• 木付子 | 木五倍子 - きぶし | キブシ - early spiketail (species of flowering plant, Stachyurus praecox)
• 人の噂も七十五日 - ひとのうわさもななじゅうごにち - gossip lasts just one season (lit: 75 days)
• ５００円玉 | 五百円玉 - ごひゃくえんだま - 500 yen coin
• 四捨五入機能 - ししゃごにゅうきのう - round-off function/rounding
• 九寸五分 - くすんごぶ - dagger
• 五香粉 - ウーシャンフェン | ウーシャンフン - five-spice powder
• 五陰盛苦 - ごおんじょうく - the pain brought on by the five skandha
• 十五日 - じゅうごにち - the 15h day of the month
• 五智如来 - ごちにょらい - five dhyani buddhas/five wisdom buddhas
• 五悪 - ごあく - the five sins in Buddhism (murder, theft, adultery, falsehood and drink)
• 五感 - ごかん - the five senses
• 五月 | ５月 - ごがつ - May
• 五月晴 | 五月晴れ - さつきばれ - early-summer fine weather (during rainy season)
• 五穀 - ごこく - the 5 grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet (awa and kibi))
• 五十音 - ごじゅうおん - the Japanese syllabary
• 五十歩百歩 - ごじゅっぽひゃっぽ | ごじっぽひゃっぽ - six of one and a half dozen of the other/scant difference
• 五常 - ごじょう - the five cardinal Confucian virtues (justice, politeness, wisdom, fidelity and benevolence)
• 五寸くぎ | 五寸釘 - ごすんくぎ - long nail/spike
• 五線紙 - ごせんし - music paper
• 五体 - ごたい - the whole body/limbs
• 五段動詞 - ごだんどうし - godan verb/type I verb
• 五倍 - ごばい - five times
• 五分試し - ごぶだめし - killing by inches
• 五目寿司 | 五目鮨 - ごもくずし - sushi with several ingredients mixed in or sprinkled on top
• 五倫の道 - ごりんのみち - the five Confucian filial-piety relationships
• 五輪聖火 - ごりんせいか - Olympic torch
• 弦楽五重奏曲 - げんがくごじゅうそうきょく - string quintet
• 五 - ご | いつ | い - five
• 五音々階 | 五音音階 - ごおんおんかい - pentatonic scale
• 五畿内 - ごきない - the Five Home Provinces
• 五月の節句 - ごがつのせっく - Boy's Festival
• 五絃 - ごげん - five strings/five-stringed instrument
• 五彩 - ごさい - the five colours: green, yellow, red, white and black/the five colors/five-coloured porcelain/five-colored porcelain
• 五十音順 - ごじゅうおんじゅん - the syllabary order
• 五十路 - いそじ - age fifty/one's fifties
• 五情 - ごじょう - the five passions (anger, joy, hatred, desire and grief)
• 五節 - ごせつ - the five festivals (Jan 7th, March 3rd, May 5th, July 7th and Sep 9th)
• 五線譜 - ごせんふ - (music) score
• 五大国 - ごだいこく - the Five Powers
• 五斗米 - ごとべい - small salary
• 五分 - ごぶ - half/50%/tie/evenness | 5 parts/5%
• 五辺形 - ごへんけい - pentagon
• 五里霧中 - ごりむちゅう - totally at a loss/lose one's bearings/in a maze/in a fog/all at sea/up in the air/mystified/bewildered
• 五輪の塔 - ごりんのとう - five-story pagoda
• 五輪大会 - ごりんたいかい - Olympic Games
• 五陰 - ごおん - the five skandhas (the five aggregates: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness)
• 五つ子 - いつつご - quintuplets
• 五官 - ごかん - the five sense organs
• 五桁 - ごけた - five-digit number/"ten thousands" column
• 五月人形 - ごがつにんぎょう - Boys' May Festival dolls
• 五行 - ごぎょう - wu xing (the five elements of traditional Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water)
• 五種競技 - ごしゅきょうぎ - pentathlon
• 五十年祭 - ごじゅうねんさい - jubilee/semicentennial
• 五書 - ごしょ - Pentateuch
• 五人囃子 - ごにんばやし - five court-musician dolls at the Girl's Festival (in March)
• 五線 - ごせん - staff (music)
• 五臓六腑 - ごぞうろっぷ - the internal organs
• 五段 - ごだん - Japanese verb group | fifth rank (in martial arts, etc.)
• 五日 | ５日 - いつか - the fifth day of the month | five days
• 五分五分 - ごぶごぶ - as likely as not/50-50/even match/tie
• 五目飯 - ごもくめし - dish of rice, fish and vegetables
• 五稜堡 - ごりょうほ - five-sided fort | Pentagon
• 五輪旗 - ごりんき - Olympic Flag
• 五つ | ５つ - いつつ - five
• 五戒 - ごかい - the five precepts (prohibitions against killing, theft, sexual misconduct, lying and intemperance)
• 五経 - ごきょう - the Five Classics texts of Confucianism
• 五月闇 - さつきやみ - dark night in the rainy season
• 五更 - ごこう - the five night watches/fifth watch of the night (approx. 3 am to 5 am)
• 五指 - ごし - the five fingers
• 五十三次 - ごじゅうさんつぎ - the 53 Toukaidou stages
• 五旬節 - ごじゅんせつ - pentecost
• 五人組 - ごにんぐみ - five-family unit/five-man group
• 五節句 - ごせっく - the five festivals (Jan 7th, March 3rd, May 5th, July 7th and Sep 9th)
• 五臓 - ごぞう - the five viscera (liver, lungs, heart, kidney and spleen)
• 五大洋 - ごだいよう - the Five Oceans
• 五徳 - ごとく - the five virtues | tripod/three or four-legged kettle stand | family crest in the shape of such an object
• 五分刈り - ごぶがり - close haircut
• 五目 - ごもく - mixture
• 五稜郭 - ごりょうかく - five-sided fortification
• 五輪会議 - ごりんかいぎ - olympic congress
• 五芒 - ごぼう - pentagram
• 三皇五帝 - さんこうごてい - Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (mythological rulers of ancient China)
• 五代十国 - ごだいじっこく - Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (in Chinese history)
• 基本五文型 - きほんごぶんけい - the five basic sentence structures (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOO, SVOC)
• 五文型 - ごぶんけい - the five sentence structures (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOO, SVOC)
• 五光 - ごこう - (in hanafuda) the collection of the five light cards
• 地神五代 - ちじんごだい - five generations of earthly deities
• 五色の賤 - ごしきのせん - five lowly castes of the ritsuryo system
• 神道五部書 - しんとうごぶしょ - five fundamental texts of Ise Shinto
• 五刑 - ごけい - five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) | five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
• 五罪 - ござい - five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) | five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)
• 五等爵 - ごとうしゃく - five ranks of nobility (duke, marquis, count, viscount, baron)
• 四捨五入 - ししゃごにゅう - rounding up (esp. fractions)
• 皐月 | 五月 - さつき - fifth month of the lunar calendar
• 四分五裂 - しぶんごれつ | しぶごれつ - torn asunder/disrupted and disorganized
• 五賤 - ごせん - five lowly castes of the ritsuryo system
• 七五三 - しちごさん - festival (shrine visit) by children aged 7, 5 and 3 | lucky numbers 7, 5 and 3
• 七五調 - しちごちょう - seven-and-five-syllable meter
• 五爵 - ごしゃく - five ranks of nobility (duke, marquis, count, viscount, baron)
• 五右衛門風呂 - ごえもんぶろ - bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)
• 五胡 - ごこ - Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China between the 3rd & 5th centuries: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)
• 没食子蜂 | 五倍子蜂 - ふしばち - gall wasp (any insect of family Cynipidae)
• 五胡十六国 - ごこじゅうろっこく - Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China from 304 to 439 CE)/Sixteen Kingdoms period
• 五大 - ごだい - the five elements (earth, water, fire, wind, aether) | five great wisdom kings
• 十五 - じゅうご - 15/fifteen
• 五百 - ごひゃく | いお - 500 | many
• 十五夜 - じゅうごや - night of the full moon/the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month
• 五月雨雲 - さみだれぐも - cloud during rainy season
• 十五年戦争 - じゅうごねんせんそう - Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)
• ロシア五人組 - ロシアごにんぐみ - The Five (circle of Russian composers: Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin)
• 五百万 - ごひゃくまん | いおよろず - 5000000 | many
• 五奉行 - ごぶぎょう - the five commissioners (administrative organ of feudal Japan established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
• モーセの五書 - モーセのごしょ - Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible, traditionally attributed to Moses)
• 五大老 - ごたいろう - Council of Five Elders (committee of daimyo formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan until his son Hideyori came of age)
• モーセ五書 - モーセごしょ - Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible, traditionally attributed to Moses)
• 五蘊 - ごうん - the five skandhas (the five aggregates: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness)
• 五眼 - ごげん - the five eyes (physical eye, heavenly eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye and Buddha eye)
• 鎌倉五山 - かまくらござん - the five great Rinzai temples of Kamakura (Kencho-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jochi-ji, Jomyo-ji)
• 五日熱 - いつかねつ - trench fever
• 五角錐 - ごかくすい - pentagonal pyramid
• 五葉の松 - いつはのまつ - Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora)
• 五色野路子 - ごしきのじこ | ゴシキノジコ - painted bunting (Passerina ciris)
• 五色鶸 - ごしきひわ | ゴシキヒワ - European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
• 五十雀 - ごじゅうから | ゴジュウカラ - Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
• 五角柱 - ごかくちゅう - pentagonal prism
• 五角 - ごかく - pentagon
• 五明 - ごみょう - the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)
• 五色鳥 - ごしきどり | ゴシキドリ - barbet (any bird of family Capitonidae)
• 溝五位 - みぞごい - Japanese night heron (Gorsachius goisagi)
• 五島鯨 - ごとうくじら | ゴトウクジラ - larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
• 五色青海鸚哥 - ごしきぜいがいいんこ | ごしきせいがいいんこ - rainbow lory/rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus)
• 源五郎 - げんごろう | ゲンゴロウ - diving beetle | Japanese predacious diving beetle (Cybister japonicus)
• 五大明王 - ごだいみょうおう - five great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Trilokavijaya, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka)
• 巨頭鯨 | 五島鯨 - ごんどうくじら | ゴンドウクジラ - larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
• 五段活用 - ごだんかつよう - conjugation (inflection, declension) of godan verbs
• 五公五民 - ごこうごみん - land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half
• 五夜 - ごや - division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods | the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)
• 葦五位 - よしごい - yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis)
• 五十日 - ごとおび - days of the month ending in 5 or 0 (when payments are often due)
• 五月蠅い | 五月蝿い | 煩い - うるさい - noisy/loud | fussy | annoying/troublesome/tiresome/importunate | bossy
• 五本指 - ごほんゆび - five-toed (socks) | top 5 (counting with fingers)
• 五本指靴下 - ごほんゆびくつした - five-toed socks
• 五本指ソックス - ごほんゆびソックス - five-toed socks
• むつ五郎 - むつごろう | ムツゴロウ - mudskipper/goggle-eyed goby
• 五山 - ごさん - five most important temples of a region
• 五葉 - ごよう - Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai)/goyoumatsu
• 五山 - ござん - five important temples of a region
• 京都五山 - きょうとござん - Kyoto Gozan/the five most important Rinzai temples of Kyoto, as well as Nanzen-ji
• 五芒星 - ごぼうせい - pentagram (as used in divination, etc.)
• 五葉松 - ごようまつ - Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai)
• 五角形 - ごかくけい | ごかっけい - pentagon
• 五色 - ごしき | ごしょく - variegated colors/variegated colours/five colors/five colours
• 五月雨 - さみだれ | さつきあめ - early-summer rain
• 五倍子 | 付子 | 附子 - ふし | ごばいし - sumac gallnut
• 五月幟 - ごがつのぼり | さつきのぼり - Boys' Festival paper-carp streamers
• 五音 - ごいん | ごおん - pentatonic scale
• 五重 - いつえ | ごじゅう - five-storied/quintuplicate/fivefold
• 五重塔 | 五重の塔 - ごじゅうのとう - five-storied pagoda
• 五倫 - ごりん - the five Confucian filial-piety relationships
• 三三五五 | 三々五々 - さんさんごご - in groups of twos and threes/in small groups
• 注連縄 | 七五三縄 | しめ縄 | 標縄 - しめなわ - (shinto) rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil
• 五大州 | 五大洲 - ごだいしゅう - the Five Continents
• 五輪 - ごりん - the Olympics
• 五月雨式 - さみだれしき - intermittent (off and on) manner/dragging on and on
• 四の五の言う - しのごのいう - to grumble about something (trivial)
• 第五 - だいご - the fifth
• 四肢五体 - ししごたい - the (one's) whole body
• 五十音図 - ごじゅうおんず - the Japanese syllabary table
• 五重唱 - ごじゅうしょう - vocal quintet/five-part chorus
• 五言律詩 - ごごんりっし - poem of eight lines, each of five (Chinese) characters
• 五重奏 - ごじゅうそう - instrumental quintet
• 五分 - ごぶん - to divide into five parts
• 陰陽五行 - いんようごぎょう | おんようごぎょう - the cosmic dual forces (yin and yang) and the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth) in Chinese cosmology
• 五言絶句 - ごごんぜっく - poem of four lines, each of five (Chinese) characters
• 五体満足 - ごたいまんぞく - with no physical defects/in perfectly good health/sound in wind and limb
• 五目並べ - ごもくならべ - gobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones)
• 東海道五十三次 - とうかいどうごじゅうさんつぎ - fifty-three stages on the Tokaido (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
• 五穀豊穣 - ごこくほうじょう - bumper (abundant) crop/huge harvest (of cereals)
• 五十知命 - ごじゅうちめい - At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius)
• 四書五経 - ししょごきょう - the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism/the Nine Chinese Classics
• 五大湖 - ごだいこ - the Great Lakes
• 五風十雨 - ごふうじゅうう - seasonable rains and winds/halcyon weather/halcyon times of peace
• 五分 - ごふん - five minutes
• 上位五番 - じょういごばん - last five matches of makushita division wrestlers (sumo)
• 五面体 - ごめんたい - pentahedron
• 五形拳 - ごけいけん - Wu Xing Fist/Five Form Fist (Dragon, Snake, Tiger, Crane, Leopard)
• 五十 - ごじゅう | いそ | い - fifty
• 五十肩 - ごじゅうかた - stiff shoulders (owing to age) | frozen shoulder
• 五分の一 - ごぶんのいち - one fifth part
• 五月病 - ごがつびょう - blues experienced by college freshmen or workplace recruits shortly after beginning school or work/the May blues
• 五色揚げ - ごしきあげ - variety of deep-fried vegetables
• 五本 - ごほん - five (long cylindrical things)
• ４当５落 | 四当五落 - よんとうごらく - sleep four hours pass, sleep five hours fail/four-pass, five fail
• 五車星 - ごしゃせい - Auriga/the Charioteer
• 五女 - ごじょ - fifth daughter
• 第五列 - だいごれつ - fifth column
• 週五日 - しゅういつか - five days a week
• 五男 - ごなん - fifth son
• 五明後日 - ごあさって - four days from now (five days in some places)
• 近代五種競技 - きんだいごしゅきょうぎ - the modern pentathlon
• 五位鷺 - ごいさぎ | ゴイサギ - black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)/night heron
• 富士五湖 - ふじごこ - the Five Lakes of Mt. Fuji
• 五月祭 - ごがつさい - May Day/May Festival
• 五分咲き - ごぶざき - half-florescent
• 五輪のマーク - ごりんのマーク - five-ring Olympic emblem
• 念五日 - ねんごにち - 25th of the month | 25 days