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five / 5
HSK 1
multicolored / every color under the sun
HSK 4
myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of
HSK 7-9
over and over again (idiom)
HSK 7-9
five-star (hotel)
HSK 7-9
metal hardware (nuts and bolts) / the five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron and tin 金銀銅鐵錫|金银铜铁锡
the five visible planets, namely: Mercury 水星, Venus 金星, Mars 火星, Jupiter 木星, Saturn 土星
fifth
May / fifth month (of the lunar year)
fifteen / 15
5-1 (May 1st)
five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood , fire , earth , metal , water
fifty
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
Wuzhai county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
Wuhe, a county in Bengbu 蚌埠, Anhui / Punjab, a province of Pakistan
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
of great erudition and scholarship (idiom)
five continents / the world
fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old)
to bind a person's upper body, with arms tied behind the back and rope looped around the neck / to truss up
Wuhua county in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong / Wuhua district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan
pentagon
Friday
(music) staff / stave
five viscera and six bowels (TCM)
50-50 / equal (share, partnership etc)
all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display
Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山|恒山 in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan
Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in north Xinjiang
several / three or five
all parts of the country
Wuliangye liquor / Five Grain liquor
pentagram
multicolored / the rainbow / garish
the five fingers of one's hand
Wutai city and county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
Wuchang, county-level city in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang / the Permanent Five (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA)
the five cardinal virtues in traditional Chinese ethics: benevolence , justice 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom and honor / alternative term for 五倫|五伦, the five cardinal relationships / alternative term for 五行, the five elements
five rings / pentacyclic (chemistry)
lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom) / fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success)
five viscera of TCM, namely: heart , liver , spleen , lungs and kidneys 腎|肾
the Five Classics of Confucianism, namely: the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经, the Book of History 書經|书经, the Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记, the Book of Changes 易經|易经, and the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋
to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb
Wulian county in Rizhao 日照, Shandong
abbr. for 五峰土家族自治縣|五峰土家族自治县, Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County in Hubei / Wufeng township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)
pork belly / streaky pork
Wudaokou neighborhood of Beijing
five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齒音|齿音, 唇音
bachelor (lit. fifth child of the Wangs)
in groups of three or four (idiom)
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
abundant harvest of all food crops / bumper grain harvest
lit. to shout out hoping for fives and sixes when gambling with dice; a hubbub of gambling
Isuzu
the sparrow may be small but all its vital organs are there (idiom) / small but complete in every detail
Wudalianchi, county-level city in Heihe 黑河, Heilongjiang
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
the five ranges separating Hunan and Jiangxi from south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi, namely: Dayu 大庾嶺|大庾岭, Dupang 都龐嶺|都庞岭, Qitian 騎田嶺|骑田岭, Mengzhu 萌渚嶺|萌渚岭 and Yuecheng 越城嶺|越城岭
Wuyuan county in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔, Inner Mongolia
(idiom) bright and multicolored; of rich variety; dazzling; glitzy
the Five Legendary Emperors, usually taken to be the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝, Zhuanxu 顓頊|颛顼, Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾, Tang Yao 唐堯|唐尧 and Yu Shun 虞舜
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
Wutongqiao district of Leshan city 樂山市|乐山市, Sichuan
pentagon
three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography
burly / strapping / big and strong
schizandra (Schisandra chinensis) / Magnolia vine
Deinagkistrodon acutus, a species of venomous pit viper, aka five-pace viper (i.e. can grow to five paces)
memorial activity 35 days after a person's death
idiot / stupid person / a dope
five crops, e.g. millet , soybean , sesame , barley 麥|麦, rice or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley
the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
abbr. for 五卅運動|五卅运动, The May Thirtieth Movement (1925)
to order again and again (idiom)
chest of drawers
never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite
Wuying district of Yichun city 伊春市, Heilongjiang
(of a person) short in stature
(TCM) "five strains and seven impairments", five referring to the five viscera 五臟|五脏, 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)
15th August (the date of Japan's surrender in 1945)
imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead , cutting off the nose , amputation of one or both feet , castration 宮|宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping , beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns , forced labor , exile or banishment , capital punishment
all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display
lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty
all the trades / people of all trades and professions
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 , righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom and fidelity )
the eye is bewildered by five colors (idiom); a dazzling riot of colors
(Buddhism etc) the five forbidden pungent vegetables: leek, scallion, garlic, rape and coriander
Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴, Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑, Jie , Di , Qiang , esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六國|五胡十六国
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
Friday
Acanthopanax gracilistylus
Wuhe, a county in Bengbu 蚌埠, Anhui
five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe) / Japanese: gomoku / gobang
five continents / the whole world
wuling powder (decoction of poria mushroom used in TCM) / poria five powder / Hoelen five powder / five ling powder

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