五 — kanji meaning “five”
五
five
- Meanings
- five
- On'yomi
- ゴ (go)
- Kun'yomi
- いつ、いつ.つ
- Name readings
- い、さ、さつ、ち、ふ、み
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 4
- Newspaper frequency
- #31 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 7
- Chinese reading
- wǔ — Chinese character page
Words with 五
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 五輪 | ごりん gorin | Olympic Games; Olympics |
| 五つ | いつつ itsutsu | five |
| 五感 | ごかん gokan | the five senses |
| 五十音 | ごじゅうおん gojuuon | the Japanese syllabary |
| 五体 | ごたい gotai | the whole body |
| 四捨五入 | ししゃごにゅう shishagonyuu | rounding (off; a number); rounding half away from zero |
| 七五三 | しちごさん shichigosan | shichi-go-san; 7-5-3 day; festival day for children aged 7, 5 and 3 held on or around November 15 |
| 五色 | ごしき goshiki | five colors (esp. red, blue, yellow, white and black); five colours |
| 五月雨 | さみだれ samidare | early-summer rain |
| 五月 | さつき satsuki | fifth month of the lunar calendar |
| 五分五分 | ごぶごぶ gobugobu | as likely as not; fifty-fifty; even match |
| 五目 | ごもく gomoku | mixture of ingredients (originally five) |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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