Meanings

five dhyani buddhas

five-spice powder

pain caused by the five skandhas

the five skandhas (matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness)

round-off function

Fifth Generation Computer System

early stachyurus (Stachyurus praecox)

tread on a worm and it will turn

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

in a great quantity

Chinese sumac (Brucea javanica)

Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters)

five pungent roots (in Buddhism or Taoism)

fiveleaf aralia (Acanthopanax sieboldianus)

Five Dynasties (of China; 907-979)

May 68 (period of civil unrest in France; May-June 1968)

nine-to-five (working hours)

quinquennial

fifth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and central)

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