Dictionary - results for five

Simplified	Traditional	Pinyin	English
五	五	wǔ	- five - 5
伍	伍	wǔ	- squad of five soldiers - to associate with - five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
五代	五代	Wǔdài	- Five Dynasties (in different contexts, from mythology through to Han and the interregnum between Han and Tang) - the five dynasties forming the interregnum between Tang and Song (936-947), namely: Later Liang 後梁\|后梁[Hou4 Liang2], Later Tang 後唐\|后唐[Hou4 Tang2], Later Jin 後晉\|后晋[Hou4 Jin4], Later Han 後漢\|后汉[Hou4 Han4], Later Zhou 後周\|后周[Hou4 Zhou1]
五官	五官	wǔguān	- five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳) - facial features
五岳	五嶽	Wǔyuè	- Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山\|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山[Heng2 Shan1] in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山\|恒山[Heng2 Shan1] in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山[Song1 Shan1] in Henan
五帝	五帝	wǔdì	- Five Emperors from legendary times - possibly tribal leaders before the historiographers got working on them - usually taken to be Yellow Emperor 黃帝\|黄帝[Huang2 di4] and four of his sons Zhuan Xu 顓頊\|颛顼[Zhuan1 Xu1], Di Ku 帝嚳\|帝喾[Di4 Ku4], Tang Yao 唐堯\|唐尧[Tang2 Yao2], Yu Shun 虞舜[Yu2 Shun4]
五常	五常	wǔcháng	- five constant virtues of Confucianism, namely: benevolence 仁, righteousness 義\|义, propriety 禮\|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信 - five cardinal relationships of Confucianism (between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, brothers, friends) - five phases of Chinese philosophy: water 水, fire 火, wood 木, metal 金, earth 土
五度	五度	wǔdù	- five degrees - fifth (basic musical interval, doh to soh)
五彩	五彩	wǔcǎi	- five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) - multicolored
五方	五方	wǔfāng	- five directions, namely: east 東\|东, south 南, west 西, north 北 and middle 中
五洲	五洲	wǔzhōu	- five continents - the world
五环	五環	wǔhuán	- five rings - pentacyclic (chemistry)
五瘟	五瘟	wǔwēn	- five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence
五谷	五穀	wǔgǔ	- five crops, e.g. millet 粟[su4], soybean 豆[dou4], sesame 麻[ma2], barley 麥\|麦[mai4], rice 稻[dao4] or other variants - all crops - all grains - oats, peas, beans and barley
五胡	五胡	Wǔhú	- Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴[Xiong1 nu2], Xianbei 鮮卑\|鲜卑[Xian1 bei1], Jie 羯[Jie2], Di 氐[Di1], Qiang 羌[Qiang1], esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六國\|五胡十六国[Wu3 hu2 Shi2 liu4 guo2]
五脏	五臟	wǔzàng	- five viscera of TCM, namely: heart 心[xin1], liver 肝[gan1], spleen 脾[pi2], lungs 肺[fei4] and kidneys 腎\|肾[shen4]
五行	五行	wǔxíng	- five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水
五院	五院	wǔyuàn	- Five yuan or courts that formed the government of the Republic of China under Sun Yat-sen's constitution, namely: 行政院[xing2 zheng4 yuan4] Executive yuan, 立法院[li4 fa3 yuan4] Legislative yuan, 司法院[si1 fa3 yuan4] Judicial yuan, 考試院\|考试院[kao3 shi4 yuan4] Examination yuan, 監察院\|监察院[jian1 cha2 yuan4] Control yuan
五音	五音	wǔyīn	- five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la - five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hou2 yin1], 牙音[ya2 yin1], 舌音[she2 yin1], 齒音\|齿音[chi3 yin1], 唇音[chun2 yin1]
五香	五香	wǔxiāng	- five spice seasoned - incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)
五鬼	五鬼	wǔguǐ	- five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence - also written 五瘟神
击掌	擊掌	jīzhǎng	- to clap one's hands - to clap each other's hands - high five
红星	紅星	hóngxīng	- red star - five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat - hot film star
五大洲	五大洲	wǔdàzhōu	- five continents - the whole world
五瘟神	五瘟神	wǔwēnshén	- five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence - cf four horsemen of the apocalypse
五粮液	五糧液	Wǔliángyè	- Wuliangye liquor - Five Grain liquor
五苓散	五苓散	wǔlíngsǎn	- wuling powder (decoction of poria mushroom used in TCM) - poria five powder - Hoelen five powder - five ling powder
五香粉	五香粉	wǔxiāngfěn	- five spices powder
五代十国	五代十國	WǔdàiShíguó	- Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
五分美金	五分美金	wǔfēnMěijīn	- nickel - five US cents
五大名山	五大名山	WǔdàMíngshān	- Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山\|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山[Heng2 Shan1] in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山\|恒山[Heng2 Shan1] in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山[Song1 Shan1] in Henan
五笔字型	五筆字型	wǔbǐzìxíng	- five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983
五等爵位	五等爵位	wǔděngjuéwèi	- five orders of feudal nobility, namely: Duke 公[gong1], Marquis 侯[hou2], Count 伯[bo2], Viscount 子[zi3], Baron 男[nan2]
五脏六腑	五臟六腑	wǔzàngliùfǔ	- five viscera and six bowels (TCM)
五鬼闹判	五鬼鬧判	wǔguǐnàopàn	- Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells
五人墓碑记	五人墓碑記	wǔrénmùbēijì	- Five tombstone inscriptions (1628), written by Zhang Pu 張溥\|张溥[Zhang1 Pu3]
五笔输入法	五筆輸入法	wǔbǐshūrùfǎ	- five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983
五百年前是一家	五百年前是一家	wǔbǎiniánqiánshìyījiā	- five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)