五 wǔ
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wǔ
number
five
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '五'; Guoyu '五' n 1; Kroll 2015 '五' 1, p. 481; Unihan '五'; XHZD '五' 1, p. 795) -
wǔ
noun
fifth musical note
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (; XHZD '五' 2, p. 795) -
wǔ
proper noun
Wu
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '五' n 2; Unihan '五') -
wǔ
noun
the five elements
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: See 五行 (Kroll 2015 '五' 1a, p. 481)
Contained in
- 红五星旗(紅五星旗) Five-Starred Red Flag
- 五更 five watches
- 五香 five spice powder ; five flavors
- 黑五 Black Friday
- 兴五世(興五世) florish for five generations
- 五花大绑(五花大綁) to bind a person's upper body, with arms tied behind the back and rope looped around the neck
- 五鬼 five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence
- 五十三 53
- 五项全能(五項全能) pentathlon
- 五方 the five regions
- 黑五类(黑五類) the five black categories
- 二一添作五 one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning); to share fairly between two parties
- 五斗米道 Way of Five Pecks of Rice
- 五十五 55
- 一九五一年 1951
- 五旬节(五旬節) Pentecost
- 五行顺逆(五行順逆) the five elements act with and against each other
- 五十七 57
- 五湖四海 the five lakes and four seas; all over the world
- 五毛 fifty cents party
- 五官端正 to have regular features
- 一九五四年 1954
- 一九二五年 1925
- 五光十色 five lights, ten colors; a dazzling variety
- 五星上将(五星上將) five star general
- 五星红旗(五星紅旗) five-starred red flag (PRC national flag)
- 五月节(五月節) Dragon Boat Festival
- 五音 five notes of pentatonic scale ; five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics
- 五十音 gojūon
- 五分熟 medium (of steak)
- 五岭逶迤腾细浪(五嶺逶迤騰細浪) Wuling Mountains winding like rippling rills
- 四通五达(四通五達) roads open in all directions; openly accessible
- 一九四五年 1945
- 五毛特效 laughable low-budget special effects
- 一九一五年 1915
- 目迷五色 the eye is bewildered by five colors; a dazzling riot of colors
- 一九五二年 1952
- 五香粉 five spices powder
- 五福临门(五福臨門) (may the) five blessings descend upon this home
Also contained in
五和 、 五岛列岛 、 五大传奇 、 五卅运动 、 五伦 、 五老峰 、 五尺道 、 五人墓碑记 、 五岭 、 五三事件 、 五原县 、 五莲
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷三十三 志第九 曆三 Volume 33 Treatises 9: Calendar 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 256
- 《十二諸侯年表》 Yearly Chronicle of the Feudal Lords Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 222
- 卷四十七 志第二十七: 經籍下 Volume 47 Treatises 27: Literature 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 178
- 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 170
- 卷六十 志第五十 藝文四 Volume 60 Treatises 56: The Arts 4 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 170
- 卷35 志第30 經籍四 Volume 35 Treatises 30: Bibliography 4 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 160
- 卷四十一 志第二十一: 地理四 Volume 41 Treatises 21: Geography 4 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 158
- 卷九十六 志第四十五上: 食貨四 Volume 96 Treatises 49: Finance and Economics 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 151
- 卷五十二 志第四: 曆一 Volume 52 Treatises 5: Calendar 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 136
- 卷四十四 志第二十四: 職官三 Volume 44 Treatises 24: Government Service 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 135
Collocations
- 五章 (五章) 五章 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧擊鼓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Ji Gu — count: 21
- 五句 (五句) 章五句 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧召南‧小星 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Shao And The South - Xiao Xing — count: 19
- 章五 (章五) 章五句 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧召南‧小星 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Shao And The South - Xiao Xing — count: 17
- 五年 (五年) 七十有五年 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 無逸 Zhou Shu - Against Luxurious Ease — count: 14
- 五曰 (五曰) 五曰雅 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 11
- 五父 (五父) 五父諫曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 4
- 五教 (五教) 敬敷五教 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 舜典 Yu Shu - Canon of Shun — count: 4
- 五罚 (五罰) 正于五罰 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 呂刑 Zhou Shu - Marquis of Lu on Punishments — count: 3
- 丝五 (絲五) 素絲五紽 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧召南‧羔羊 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Shao And The South - Gao Yang — count: 3
- 五日 (五日) 五日為期 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧魚藻之什‧采綠 Minor odes of the kingdom - Yu Zao Zhi Shen - Cai Lu — count: 3