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JLPT N5 SL1 4 strokes Frequency: #22

Meanings

five

Radicals

Decomposition

⿴二?

Etymology

Ideographic: Five elements (the cross with the extra stroke) between heaven 一 and earth 一 

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 4

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
2 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left
3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
4 horizontal bottom-to-top
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
go

Used in compound words

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
いつ itsu

Standalone, with つ suffix

Words Using This Kanji

273 words total
Other (20 words)
五本指ソックス ごほんゆびソックス

five-toed socks

五本指 ごほんゆび

five-toed (socks)

五十日 ごとおび

days of the month ending in 5 or 0 (when payments are often due)

五段活用 ごだんかつよう

godan verb conjugation

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. 7pm to 5am) into five 2-hour periods

五大明王 ごだいみょうおう

five great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Trilokavijaya, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka)

源五郎 げんごろう

diving beetle

五島鯨 ごとうくじら

larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)

五色鳥 ごしきどり

barbet (any bird of family Capitonidae)

溝五位 みぞごい

Japanese night heron (Gorsachius goisagi)

五明 ごみょう

the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)

五角柱 ごかくちゅう

pentagonal prism

五角 ごかく

pentagon

五葉の松 いつはのまつ

Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora)

五日熱 いつかねつ

trench fever

五色野路子 ごしきのじこ

painted bunting (Passerina ciris)

モーセ五書 モーセごしょ

Pentateuch

モーセの五書 モーセのごしょ

Pentateuch