Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- wǔ
English
- five
- five
- five
- surname
- 5
粵語
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Variants
Words containing 五
- 五月ng5 jyut6
May
- 五行ng5 hang4
five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水
- 五代ng5 doi6
Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
- 五金ng5 gam1
metal hardware (nuts and bolts)
- 五穀ng5 guk1
five crops, e.g. millet 粟[su4], soybean 豆[dou4], sesame 麻[ma2], barley 麥|麦[mai4], rice 稻[dao4] or other variants
- 五味ng5 mei6
the five flavors, namely: sweet 甜, sour 酸, bitter 苦, spicy hot 辣, salty 鹹|咸
- 五官ng5 gun1
five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳)
- 五嶺ng5 ling5
the five ranges separating Hunan and Jiangxi from south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi, namely: Dayu 大庾嶺|大庾岭[Da4 yu3 ling3], Dupang 都龐嶺|都庞岭[Du1 pang2 ling3], Qitian 騎田嶺|骑田岭[Qi2 tian2 ling3], Mengzhu 萌渚嶺|萌渚岭[Meng2 zhu3 ling3] and Yuecheng 越城嶺|越城岭[Yue4 cheng2 ling3]
- 五毛ng5 mou4
fifty cents (0.5 RMB)
- 五臟ng5 zong6
five viscera of TCM, namely: heart 心[xin1], liver 肝[gan1], spleen 脾[pi2], lungs 肺[fei4] and kidneys 腎|肾[shen4]
- 星期五sing1 kei4 ng5
Friday
- 五稜鏡ng5 ling4 geng3
pentaprism
- 五顏六色ng5 ngaan4 luk6 sik1
multicolored
- 五邑ng5 jap1
the Greater Taishan Region which includes, Heshan, Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, Enping, situated in the Pearl River Delta
- 五姑娘ng5 gu1 noeng2
hand used for masturbating (for men) [colloquial]
- 五月節ng5 jyut6 zit3
Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th lunar month)
- 五更ng5 gaang1
fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old)
- 五指ng5 zi2
the five fingers of one's hand
- 禮拜五lai5 baai3 ng5
Friday
- 王五wong4 ng5
Wang Wu, name for an unspecified person, third of a series of three: 張三|张三[Zhang1 San1], 李四[Li3 Si4], 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry
- 王老五wong4 lou5 ng5
bachelor (lit. fifth child of the Wangs)
- 五筆ng5 bat1
abbr. of 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983
- 五福ng5 fuk1
Five good fortunes: longlived, wealth and rank, healthy and peaced, ethical, and end well
- 五音ng5 jam1
five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la