| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 五 | 五 | wǔ | - five - 5 |
| 五一 | 五一 | wǔyī | - 5-1 (May 1st) |
| 五七 | 五七 | wǔqī | - memorial activity 35 days after a person's death |
| 五世 | 五世 | wǔshì | - the fifth (of series of numbered kings) |
| 五五 | 五五 | wǔwǔ | - 50-50 - equal (share, partnership etc) |
| 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] |
| 五伦 | 五倫 | wǔlún | - the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend) |
| 五刑 | 五刑 | wǔxíng | - imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mo4], cutting off the nose 劓[yi4], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yue4], castration 宮|宫[gong1], execution 大辟[da4 pi4] - Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞[chi1], beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖[zhang4], forced labor 徒[tu2], exile or banishment 流[liu2], capital punishment 死[si3] |
| 五加 | 五加 | wǔjiā | - Acanthopanax gracilistylus |
| 五十 | 五十 | wǔshí | - fifty |
| 五卅 | 五卅 | wǔsà | - abbr. for 五卅運動|五卅运动[wu3 sa4 yun4 dong4], The May Thirtieth Movement (1925) |
| 五原 | 五原 | Wǔyuán | - Wuyuan county in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia |
| 五味 | 五味 | wǔwèi | - the five flavors, namely: sweet 甜, sour 酸, bitter 苦, spicy hot 辣, salty 鹹|咸 - all kinds of flavors |
| 五四 | 五四 | wǔsì | - fourth of May, cf 五四運動|五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles |
| 五官 | 五官 | wǔguān | - five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳) - facial features |
| 五寨 | 五寨 | Wǔzhài | - Wuzhai county in Xinzhou 忻州[Xin1 zhou1], Shanxi |
| 五峰 | 五峰 | Wǔfēng | - abbr. for 五峰土家族自治縣|五峰土家族自治县[Wu3 feng1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4], Wufeng Tujiazu Autonomous County in Hubei - Wufeng township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县[Xin1 zhu2 Xian4], northwest Taiwan |
| 五岭 | 五嶺 | wǔlǐng | - 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 | - Wuchang county level city in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang |
| 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) |
| 五形 | 五形 | wǔxíng | - Wuxing - "Five Animals" - Martial Art |
| 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 |
| 五星 | 五星 | wǔxīng | - the five visible planets, namely: Mercury 水星, Venus 金星, Mars 火星, Jupiter 木星, Saturn 土星 |
| 五更 | 五更 | wǔgēng | - fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old) |
| 五月 | 五月 | Wǔyuè | - May - fifth month (of the lunar year) |
| 五毛 | 五毛 | wǔmáo | - see 五毛黨|五毛党[wu3 mao2 dang3] |
| 五河 | 五河 | Wǔhé | - Wuhe county in Bengbu 蚌埠[Beng4 bu4], Anhui - Punjab, province of Pakistan |
| 五洲 | 五洲 | wǔzhōu | - five continents - the world |
| 五凉 | 五涼 | WǔLiáng | - the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|後凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421) |
| 五营 | 五營 | Wǔyíng | - Wuying district of Yichun city 伊春市[Yi1 chun1 shi4], Heilongjiang |
| 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 |
| 五笔 | 五筆 | wǔbǐ | - 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 |
| 五结 | 五結 | Wǔjié | - Wujie or Wuchieh township in Yilan county 宜蘭縣|宜兰县[Yi2 lan2 xian4], Taiwan |
| 五经 | 五經 | Wǔjīng | - the Five Classics of Confucianism, namely: the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of History 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1], the Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], and the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋[Chun1 qiu1] |
| 五股 | 五股 | Wǔgǔ | - Wugu township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan |
| 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] |
| 五台 | 五臺 | Wǔtái | - Wutai city and county in Xinzhou 忻州[Xin1 zhou1], Shanxi |
| 五色 | 五色 | wǔsè | - multi-colored - the rainbow - garish |
| 五华 | 五華 | Wǔhuá | - Wuhua county in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong - Wuhua district of Kunming city 昆明市[Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan |
| 五莲 | 五蓮 | Wǔlián | - Wulian county in Rizhao 日照[Ri4 zhao4], Shandong |
| 五蕴 | 五蘊 | wǔyùn | - the Five Aggregates (from Sanskrit "skandha") (Buddhism) |
| 五号 | 五號 | wǔhào | - the fifth - fifth day of a month |
| 五行 | 五行 | wǔxíng | - five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 |
| 五角 | 五角 | wǔjiǎo | - pentagon |
| 五金 | 五金 | wǔjīn | - metal hardware (nuts and bolts) - the five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron and tin 金銀銅鐵錫|金银铜铁锡 |
| 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 |
| 五霸 | 五霸 | Wǔbà | - the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period 春秋[Chun1 qiu1] |
| 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 |
| 十五 | 十五 | shíwǔ | - fifteen - 15 |
| 王五 | 王五 | WángWǔ | - 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 |
| 端五 | 端五 | Duānwǔ | - variant of 端午[Duan1 wu3] |
| 第五 | 第五 | dìwǔ | - fifth |
| 周五 | 週五 | Zhōuwǔ | - Friday |
| 重五 | 重五 | chóngwǔ | - Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of 5th lunar month) |
| 二百五 | 二百五 | èrbǎiwǔ | - idiot - stupid person - a dope |
| 五代史 | 五代史 | Wǔdàishǐ | - History of the Five Dynasties, eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正[Xue1 Ju1 zheng4] in 974 during Northern Song 北宋[Bei3 Song4], 150 scrolls |
| 五分熟 | 五分熟 | wǔfēnshú | - cooked five minutes - medium (of steak) |
| 五十肩 | 五十肩 | wǔshíjiān | - adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) |
| 五十铃 | 五十鈴 | Wǔshílíng | - Isuzu |
| 五原县 | 五原縣 | Wǔyuánxiàn | - Wuyuan county in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia |
| 五味子 | 五味子 | wǔwèizǐ | - schizandra (Schisandra chinensis) - Magnolia vine |
| 五大洲 | 五大洲 | wǔdàzhōu | - five continents - the whole world |
| 五大湖 | 五大湖 | Wǔdàhú | - Great Lakes - the five north American Great Lakes |
| 五子棋 | 五子棋 | wǔzǐqí | - five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe) - Japanese: gomoku - gobang |
| 五家渠 | 五家渠 | Wǔjiāqú | - Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in north Xinjiang |
| 五寨县 | 五寨縣 | Wǔzhàixiàn | - Wuzhai county in Xinzhou 忻州[Xin1 zhou1], Shanxi |
| 五峰县 | 五峰縣 | WǔfēngXiàn | - abbr. for 五峰土家族自治縣|五峰土家族自治县[Wu3 feng1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4], Wufeng Tujiazu Autonomous County in Hubei |
| 五峰乡 | 五峰鄉 | Wǔfēngxiāng | - Wufeng township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县[Xin1 zhu2 Xian4], northwest Taiwan |
| 五常市 | 五常市 | Wǔchángshì | - Wuchang county level city in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang |
| 五打一 | 五打一 | wǔdǎyī | - to masturbate (slang) |
| 五指山 | 五指山 | Wǔzhǐshān | - Wuzhi or Mount Five Finger, Hainan - Wuzhishan City, Hainan |
| 五斗柜 | 五斗櫃 | wǔdǒuguì | - chest of drawers |
| 五旬节 | 五旬節 | wǔxúnjié | - Pentecost |
| 五星级 | 五星級 | wǔxīngjí | - five-star (hotel) |
| 五月份 | 五月份 | wǔyuèfèn | - May |
| 五月节 | 五月節 | Wǔyuèjié | - Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th lunar month) |
| 五步蛇 | 五步蛇 | wǔbùshé | - Deinagkistrodon, a venomous pit viper - also called five-paced viper (i.e. can grow to five paces) |
| 五毛党 | 五毛黨 | wǔmáodǎng | - fifty cents party (person supposed to relay government propaganda on Internet sites) |
| 五河县 | 五河縣 | Wǔhéxiàn | - Wuhe county in Bengbu 蚌埠[Beng4 bu4], Anhui |
| 五营区 | 五營區 | Wǔyíngqū | - Wuying district of Yichun city 伊春市[Yi1 chun1 shi4], Heilongjiang |
| 五瘟神 | 五瘟神 | wǔwēnshén | - five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence - cf four horsemen of the apocalypse |
| 五碳糖 | 五碳糖 | wǔtàntáng | - pentose (CH20)5, monosaccharide with five carbon atoms, such as ribose 核糖[he2 tang2] |
| 五祖拳 | 五祖拳 | wǔzǔquán | - Wuzuquan - "Five Ancestors" - Martial Art |
| 五粮液 | 五糧液 | Wǔliángyè | - Wuliangye liquor - Five Grain liquor |
| 五结乡 | 五結鄉 | Wǔjiéxiāng | - Wujie or Wuchieh township in Yilan county 宜蘭縣|宜兰县[Yi2 lan2 xian4], Taiwan |
| 五线谱 | 五線譜 | wǔxiànpǔ | - (music) staff - stave |
| 五股乡 | 五股鄉 | Wǔgǔxiāng | - Wugu township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan |
| 五台山 | 五臺山 | WǔtáiShān | - Mt Wutai in Shanxi 山西[Shan1 xi1], one of the Four Sacred Mountains and home of the Bodhimanda of Manjushri 文殊[Wen2 shu1] |
| 五台市 | 五臺市 | Wǔtáishì | - Wutai city in Shanxi |
| 五台县 | 五臺縣 | Wǔtáixiàn | - Wutai county in Xinzhou 忻州[Xin1 zhou1], Shanxi |
| 五花肉 | 五花肉 | wǔhuāròu | - streaky pork |
| 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 |
| 五华区 | 五華區 | Wǔhuáqū | - Wuhua district of Kunming city 昆明市[Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan |
| 五华县 | 五華縣 | Wǔhuáxiàn | - Wuhua county in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong |
| 五莲县 | 五蓮縣 | Wǔliánxiàn | - Wulian county in Rizhao 日照[Ri4 zhao4], Shandong |
| 五虎将 | 五虎將 | Wǔhǔjiàng | - Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽|关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛|张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, Ma Chao 馬超|马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠|黄忠 |
| 五角场 | 五角場 | Wǔjiǎochǎng | - Wujiaochang neighborhood of Shanghai, adjacent to Fudan University |
| 五角形 | 五角形 | wǔjiǎoxíng | - pentagon |
| 五角星 | 五角星 | wǔjiǎoxīng | - pentagram |
| 五通桥 | 五通橋 | Wǔtōngqiáo | - Wutongqiao district of Leshan city 樂山市|乐山市[Le4 shan1 shi4], Sichuan |
| 五道口 | 五道口 | Wǔdàokǒu | - Wudaokou neighborhood of Beijing |
| 五边形 | 五邊形 | wǔbiānxíng | - pentagon |
| 五金店 | 五金店 | wǔjīndiàn | - hardware store - ironmonger's store |
| 五音度 | 五音度 | wǔyīndù | - fifth (musical interval) |
| 五香粉 | 五香粉 | wǔxiāngfěn | - five spices powder |
| 八一五 | 八一五 | bāyīwǔ | - 15th August - refers to Japanese surrender in WWII on 15th August 1945 |
| 刺五加 | 刺五加 | cìwǔjiā | - manyprickle (Acanthopanax senticosus), root used in TCM |
| 大五码 | 大五碼 | dàwǔmǎ | - Big5 Chinese character coding (developed by Taiwanese companies from 1984) |
| 戊五醇 | 戊五醇 | wùwǔchún | - xylitol - also written 木糖醇[mu4 tang2 chun2] |
| 星期五 | 星期五 | Xīngqīwǔ | - Friday |
| 王老五 | 王老五 | wánglǎowǔ | - lit. fifth child of the Wangs - bachelor |
| 毕宿五 | 畢宿五 | bìxiùwǔ | - Aldebaran or Alpha Tauri |
| 礼拜五 | 禮拜五 | Lǐbàiwǔ | - Friday |
| 第五类 | 第五類 | dìwǔlèi | - category 5 - CAT 5 (cable) |
| 零点五 | 零點五 | língdiǎnwǔ | - zero point five, 0.5 - one half |
| 黑五类 | 黑五類 | hēiwǔlèi | - the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements and rightists |
| 一五一十 | 一五一十 | yīwǔyīshí | - lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail |
| 三五成群 | 三五成群 | sānwǔchéngqún | - forming groups of three or squads of five (idiom); people stand around in small clumps |
| 三令五申 | 三令五申 | sānlìngwǔshēn | - to order again and again (idiom) |
| 三侠五义 | 三俠五義 | Sānxiáwǔyì | - Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 |
| 三番五次 | 三番五次 | sānfānwǔcì | - over and over again (idiom) |
| 三皇五帝 | 三皇五帝 | sānhuángwǔdì | - three sovereigns 三皇[san1 huang2] and five emperors 五帝[wu3 di4] of myth and legend - the earliest system of Chinese historiography |
| 三纲五常 | 三綱五常 | sāngāngwǔcháng | - three principles and five virtues (idiom) - the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信) |
| 二十五史 | 二十五史 | èrshíwǔshǐ | - twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions) |
| 五七一代 | 五七一代 | wǔqīyīdài | - generation of 1957 - refers to Mao's anti-rightist purge of 1957 |
| 五七干校 | 五七幹校 | wǔqīgànxiào | - May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution) - abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校[wu3 qi1 gan4 bu4 xue2 xiao4] |
| 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 |
| 五倍子树 | 五倍子樹 | wǔbèizishù | - Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis) |
| 五光十色 | 五光十色 | wǔguāngshísè | - brilliant colors |
| 五分之一 | 五分之一 | wǔfēnzhīyī | - one fifth |
| 五分美金 | 五分美金 | wǔfēnMěijīn | - nickel - five US cents |
| 五劳七伤 | 五勞七傷 | wǔláoqīshāng | - (TCM) "five strains and seven impairments", five referring to the five viscera 五臟|五脏[wu3 zang4], and seven to adverse effects on one's body as a result of: overeating (spleen), anger (liver), moisture (kidney), cold (lung), worry (heart), wind and rain (outer appearance) and fear (mind) |
| 五卅运动 | 五卅運動 | wǔsàyùndòng | - anti-imperialist movement of 30th May 1925, involving general strike esp. in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong etc |
| 五口通商 | 五口通商 | wǔkǒutōngshāng | - the five treaty ports forced on Qing China by the 1842 treaty of Nanjing 南京條約|南京条约 that concluded the First Opium War, namely: Guangzhou 廣州|广州, Fuzhou 福州, Ningbo 寧波|宁波, Xiamen or Amoy 廈門|厦门 and Shanghai 上海 |
| 五味俱全 | 五味俱全 | wǔwèijūquán | - a complete gamut of all five flavors (idiom); every flavor under the sun |
| 五四运动 | 五四運動 | WǔsìYùndòng | - May Fourth Movement - Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles |
| 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 |
| 五大连池 | 五大連池 | Wǔdàliánchí | - Wudalianchi county level city in Heihe 黑河[Hei1 he2], Heilongjiang |
| 五官端正 | 五官端正 | wǔguānduānzhèng | - to have regular features |
| 五家渠市 | 五家渠市 | Wǔjiāqúshì | - Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in north Xinjiang |
| 五年计划 | 五年計劃 | wǔniánjìhuà | - Five-Year Plan |
| 五彩缤纷 | 五彩繽紛 | wǔcǎibīnfēn | - all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display |
| 五彩宾纷 | 五彩賓紛 | wǔcǎibīnfēn | - colorful |
| 五指山市 | 五指山市 | Wǔzhǐshānshì | - Wuzhishan City, Hainan |
| 五斗米道 | 五斗米道 | WǔdǒumǐDào | - Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Taoist movement) - Way of the Celestial Master |
| 五星红旗 | 五星紅旗 | wǔxīnghóngqí | - five-starred red flag (PRC national flag) |
| 五权宪法 | 五權憲法 | wǔquánxiànfǎ | - Sun Yat-sen's Five-power constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan - The five courts or 院[yuan4] are 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 |
| 五湖四海 | 五湖四海 | wǔhúsìhǎi | - all over the world - everywhere under the sun |
| 五灯会元 | 五燈會元 | WǔdēngHuìyuán | - Song Dynasty History of Zen Buddhism in China (1252), 20 scrolls |
| 五环会徽 | 五環會徽 | wǔhuánhuìhuī | - Olympic rings |
| 五痨七伤 | 五癆七傷 | wǔláoqīshāng | - variant of 五勞七傷|五劳七伤[wu3 lao2 qi1 shang1] |
| 五短身材 | 五短身材 | wǔduǎnshēncái | - (of a person) short in stature |
| 五福临门 | 五福臨門 | wǔfúlínmén | - lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death) - (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year) |
| 五谷丰登 | 五穀豐登 | wǔgǔfēngdēng | - abundant harvest of all food crops - bumper grain harvest |
| 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 |
| 五笔字形 | 五筆字形 | wǔbǐzìxíng | - Chinese character input method for entering characters by numbered strokes - variant of 五筆字型|五笔字型[wu3 bi3 zi4 xing2] |
| 五笔编码 | 五筆編碼 | wǔbǐbiānmǎ | - five-stroke code, Chinese character input method |
| 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] |
| 五级士官 | 五級士官 | wǔjíshìguān | - master sergeant |
| 五声音阶 | 五聲音階 | wǔshēngyīnjiē | - pentatonic scale |
| 五脏六腑 | 五臟六腑 | wǔzàngliùfǔ | - five viscera and six bowels (TCM) |
| 五色缤纷 | 五色繽紛 | wǔsèbīnfēn | - all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display |
| 五花八门 | 五花八門 | wǔhuābāmén | - myriad - all kinds of - all sorts of |
| 五花大绑 | 五花大綁 | wǔhuādàbǎng | - to bind a person's upper body, with arms tied behind the back and rope looped around the neck - to truss up |
| 五号电池 | 五號電池 | wǔhàodiànchí | - AA battery (PRC) - Taiwan equivalent: 三號電池|三号电池 |
| 五行八作 | 五行八作 | wǔhángbāzuō | - all the trades - people of all trades and professions |
| 五角大楼 | 五角大樓 | WǔjiǎoDàlóu | - the Pentagon |
| 五言绝句 | 五言絕句 | wǔyánjuéjù | - poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line |
| 五通桥区 | 五通橋區 | Wǔtōngqiáoqū | - Wutongqiao district of Leshan city 樂山市|乐山市[Le4 shan1 shi4], Sichuan |
| 五金店铺 | 五金店鋪 | wǔjīndiànpù | - hardware store |
| 五音不全 | 五音不全 | wǔyīnbùquán | - tone deaf - unable to sing in tune |
| 五项全能 | 五項全能 | wǔxiàngquánnéng | - pentathlon |
| 五颜六色 | 五顏六色 | wǔyánliùsè | - multi-colored - every color under the sun |
| 五体投地 | 五體投地 | wǔtǐtóudì | - to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb |
| 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 |
| 亨利五世 | 亨利五世 | HēnglìWǔshì | - Henry V (1387-1422), English warrior king, victor of Agincourt - History of Henry V by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚[Sha1 shi4 bi3 ya4] |
| 人五人六 | 人五人六 | rénwǔrénliù | - to make a show of being decent and proper - to display phony or hypocritical behavior |
| 吆五喝六 | 吆五喝六 | yāowǔhèliù | - lit. to shout out hoping for fives and sixes when gambling with dice; a hubbub of gambling |
| 四分五裂 | 四分五裂 | sìfēnwǔliè | - all split up and in pieces (idiom); disunity (in an organization) - complete lack of unity - to disintegrate - falling apart - to be at sixes and sevens |
| 四舍五入 | 四捨五入 | sìshěwǔrù | - to round up to the nearest integer - to discard four, but treat five as whole (of decimal points) |
| 学富五车 | 學富五車 | xuéfùwǔchē | - of great erudition and scholarship (idiom) |
| 摩西五经 | 摩西五經 | MóxīWǔjīng | - the Pentateuch - the five books of Moses in the Old Testament |
| 新五代史 | 新五代史 | XīnWǔdàishǐ | - Later History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), nineteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1] in 1053 during Northern Song Dynasty, 74 scrolls |
| 日月五星 | 日月五星 | rìyuèwǔxīng | - sun, moon and the five visible planets |
| 春秋五霸 | 春秋五霸 | ChūnqiūWǔbà | - the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), namely: Duke Huan of Qi 齊桓公|齐桓公[Qi2 Huan2 gong1], Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公[Jin4 Wen2 gong1], King Zhuang of Chu 楚莊王|楚庄王[Chu3 Zhuang1 wang2], and alternatively Duke Xiang of Song 宋襄公[Song4 Xiang1 gong1] and Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公[Qin2 Mu4 gong1] or King Helu of Wu 吳王闔閭|吴王阖闾[Wu2 wang2 He2 Lu:2] and King Gou Jian of Yue 越王勾踐|越王勾践[Yue4 wang2 Gou1 Jian4] |
| 现代五项 | 現代五項 | xiàndàiwǔxiàng | - modern pentathlon |
| 目迷五色 | 目迷五色 | mùmíwǔsè | - the eye is bewildered by five colors (idiom); a dazzling riot of colors |
| 禅门五宗 | 禪門五宗 | chánménwǔzōng | - the five schools of Chan Buddhism (idiom) |
| 第五纵队 | 第五縱隊 | dìwǔzòngduì | - fifth column (subversive group) |
| 红五星旗 | 紅五星旗 | hóngwǔxīngqí | - name of the flag of the People's Republic of China |
| 旧五代史 | 舊五代史 | JiùWǔdàishǐ | - History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正[Xue1 Ju1 zheng4] in 974 during Northern Song 北宋[Bei3 Song4], 150 scrolls |
| 军情五处 | 軍情五處 | jūnqíngwǔchù | - MI5 (British military intelligence agency) |
| 隔三岔五 | 隔三岔五 | gésǎnchàwǔ | - see 隔三差五|隔三差五[ge2 san1 cha4 wu3] |
| 隔三差五 | 隔三差五 | gésānchàwǔ | - every few days (idiom) |
| 一退六二五 | 一退六二五 | yītuìliùèrwǔ | - lit. 1 divided by 16 is 0.0625 (abacus rule) - fig. to deny responsibility - to pass the buck - also written 一推六二五[yi1 tui4 liu4 er4 wu3] |
| 三下五除二 | 三下五除二 | sānxiàwǔchúèr | - three, set five remove two (abacus rule) - efficiently - quickly and easily |
| 上下五千年 | 上下五千年 | shàngxiàwǔqiānnián | - popular history of China in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹余章 |
| 二一添作五 | 二一添作五 | èryītiānzuòwǔ | - lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) - to share fairly between two parties - to go fifty-fifty |
| 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] |
| 五大连池市 | 五大連池市 | Wǔdàliánchíshì | - Wudalianchi county level city in Heihe 黑河[Hei1 he2], Heilongjiang |
| 五氧化二钒 | 五氧化二釩 | wǔyǎnghuàèrfán | - Vanadium pentoxide V2O5 - vanadic anhydride |
| 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 |
| 五胡十六国 | 五胡十六國 | WǔhúShíliùguó | - Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439) |
| 五花腌猪肉 | 五花醃豬肉 | wǔhuāyānzhūròu | - streaky bacon |
| 六二五事变 | 六二五事變 | liùèrwǔshìbiàn | - Korean war (dating from North Korean invasion on 25th Jun 1950) |
| 六二五战争 | 六二五戰爭 | LiùÈrwǔZhànzhēng | - the Korean War (started June 25 1950) |
| 哈拉尔五世 | 哈拉爾五世 | HālāěrWǔshì | - Harald V of Norway |
| 大五趾跳鼠 | 大五趾跳鼠 | dàwǔzhǐtiàoshǔ | - great jerboa (Allactaga major) |
| 山本五十六 | 山本五十六 | ShānběnWǔshíliù | - YAMAMOTO Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral |
| 钻石王老五 | 鑽石王老五 | zuànshíwánglǎowǔ | - highly eligible bachelor - desirable male partner |
| 五七干部学校 | 五七幹部學校 | wǔqīgànbùxuéxiào | - May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution) - abbr. to 五七幹校|五七干校 |
| 五十步笑百步 | 五十步笑百步 | wǔshíbùxiàobǎibù | - the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) - the pot calls the kettle black |
| 五四爱国运动 | 五四愛國運動 | wǔsìàiguóyùndòng | - May Fourth Movement - Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles |
| 伸手不见五指 | 伸手不見五指 | shēnshǒubùjiànwǔzhǐ | - pitch-dark (idiom) |
| 如堕五里雾中 | 如墮五里霧中 | rúduòwǔlǐwùzhōng | - as if lost in a thick fog (idiom) - in a fog - muddled - completely unfamiliar with sth |
| 第五个现代化 | 第五個現代化 | dìwǔgèxiàndàihuà | - fifth modernization, i.e. democracy, cf Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations 鄧小平|邓小平, 四個現代化|四个现代化 |
| 过五关斩六将 | 過五關斬六將 | guòwǔguānzhǎnliùjiàng | - lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom) - fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success) |
| 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) |
| 五峰土家族自治县 | 五峰土家族自治縣 | WǔfēngTǔjiāzúZìzhìxiàn | - Wufeng Tujiazu Autonomous County in Hubei |
| 和平共处五项原则 | 和平共處五項原則 | hépínggòngchǔwǔxiàngyuánzé | - Zhou Enlai's Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence - 1954 Panchsheel series of agreements between PRC and India |
| 四体不勤，五谷不分 | 四體不勤，五穀不分 | sìtǐbùqín,wǔgǔbùfēn | - never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite |
| 麻雀虽小，五脏俱全 | 麻雀雖小，五臟俱全 | máquèsuīxiǎo,wǔzàngjùquán | - The sparrow may be small but all its vital organs are there (idiom). - small but complete in every detail |
| 张三，李四，王五，赵六 | 張三，李四，王五，趙六 | Zhāngsān,Lǐsì,Wángwǔ,Zhàoliù | - four proverbial names - Tom, Dick and Harry |
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