五

five

fifteen

Olympic Games

half

five

fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)

the five senses

the Japanese syllabary

instrumental quintet

five colors (usu. red, blue, yellow, white and black)

five-family unit

five-storied

staff

five people

five (long cylindrical things)

the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void)

the five viscera (liver, lungs, heart, kidney and spleen)

fifth month of the lunar calendar

five and seven

(complaining about) this and that

five most important temples of a region

five generations

fiveleaf aralia (Acanthopanax sieboldianus)

soba with various vegetables, seafood, and meat

casserole of rice, fish or meat, and vegetables

fifth daughter

quintuplets

Chinese poem with five characters per line

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

one fifth part

Five Dynasties (of China; 907-979)

in a great quantity

the five sense organs

five-seven-five syllable verse (haiku, senryu, etc.)

five-seven-five syllable verse (haiku, senryu, etc.)

35th day after a person's death

fifth (interval)

the five elements (in Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water)

the five fingers

the Five Powers

fifth

fifth court rank

fifth son

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

The Five Classics (of Confucianism)

to grumble about something (trivial)

without complaining (about this and that)

Pentateuch

Pentateuch

Pentateuch

five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut)

five-toed (socks)

five-toed socks

mixture of ingredients (originally five)

five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter)

the whole body

The Five (circle of Russian composers: Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin)

the five cardinal Confucian virtues (justice, politeness, wisdom, fidelity and benevolence)

fifth force

the five passions (anger, joy, hatred, desire and grief)

25th of the month

the five 20-point cards (high-scoring meld)

the five continents

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

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

Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai)

to be among the top five

division of the night (from approx. 7pm to 5am) into five 2-hour periods

seven-and-five-syllable meter

five and seven-syllable meter

fifty percent

godan (verb, verb conjugation)

night of the full moon

as likely as not

as likely as not

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

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (of China; 907-979)

blues experienced by college freshmen or workplace recruits shortly after beginning school or work

Twenty-Five Histories

nine-to-five (working hours)

the five blessings (health, wealth, longevity, love of virtue and dying a natural death)

five days a week

pentatonic scale

to be among the top five

pentahedron

age fifty

killing by inches

Boys' May Festival dolls

prostration

five characters

soroban bead with value five

bi-quinary system

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

mudskipper (Boleophthalmus pectinirostris)

five times (as much)

Kyoto Gozan

four days from now (five days in some places)

gobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones)

Council of Five Elders

Fifth Generation Computer System

the six articles of faith and five pillars of Islam

the five pillars of Islam and six articles of faith

the five oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic)

the five continents

the five sins (murder, theft, adultery, falsehood, and alcohol)

five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)

five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha)

sumac gallnut

trench fever

at age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven

five generations of earthly deities

May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)

the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism

torn asunder

the five night watches

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

five-ring Olympic emblem

Paralympics

Rio Olympics (2016)

Youth Olympic Games

Paris Olympics

pentagon

Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

five gates of mindfulness: worship, praise, vows, observation, prayers for the dead

Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai)

Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora)

five hindrances (that prevent a woman from becoming a Buddha, a Brahmā, a Shakra, a devil king, or a wheel-turning king)

Olympic Games

five races under one union (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans; founding principle of the Republic of China)

perfect fifth

sleep four hours and pass, sleep five hours and fail (when cramming for university entrance exams)

pentagon

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

five implements placed in front of a Buddhist altar: two candlesticks, two vases (usu. containing flowers made of gilded copper) and one incense burner

five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha)

the five planets (in ancient Chinese astronomy; Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus and Mercury)

last of the traditional set of five noh plays

godan verb conjugation

the five precepts (prohibitions against killing, theft, sexual misconduct, lying, and intoxication)

Tokyo Olympics

celebration held 50 days after the birth of a child

last five matches of makushita division wrestlers

five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)

early stachyurus (Stachyurus praecox)

Chinese sumac (Brucea javanica)

Hyakugo Bank

Goemon Ishikawa XIII (Lupin III)

fifth column

stiff shoulders (usu. owing to age)

the Japanese syllabary table