Meanings

five-line musical notation

five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter)

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

the five regent houses

Twenty-Five Histories

quintic equation

five residences for court ladies (in the inner Heian Palace)

paulownia crest (three leaves with seven blossoms on the center lead and five blossoms on each side leaf)

five and seven

35th day after a person's death

five and seven-syllable meter

five approaches to meditation

soba with various vegetables, seafood, and meat

five-starred Red Flag

regular pentagon

five gates of mindfulness: worship, praise, vows, observation, prayers for the dead

five races under one union (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans; founding principle of the Republic of China)

five characters

three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization o...

prostration