five / 5

the five visible planets, namely: Mercury 水星, Venus 金星, Mars 火星, Jupiter 木星, Saturn 土星

fifth

several / three or five

May / fifth month (of the lunar year)

metal hardware (nuts and bolts) / the five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron and tin 金銀銅鐵錫｜金银铜铁锡

fifteen / 15

Friday

fifty

5-1 (May 1st)

five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)

the five fingers of one's hand

Wuliangye liquor / Five Grain liquor

multicolored / every color under the sun

five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水

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)

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

Wutai city and county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi

Wuzhai county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi

Wuhe county in Bengbu 蚌埠, Anhui / Punjab, province of Pakistan

five rings / pentacyclic (chemistry)

multicolored / the rainbow / garish

Isuzu

Wudalianchi, county-level city in Heihe 黑河, Heilongjiang

five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored

over and over again (idiom)

of great erudition and scholarship (idiom)

Wutongqiao district of Leshan city 樂山市｜乐山市, Sichuan

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

five viscera and six bowels (TCM)

five crops, e.g. millet 粟, soybean 豆, sesame 麻, barley 麥｜麦, rice 稻 or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley

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

myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of

50-50 / equal (share, partnership etc)

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

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

pork belly / streaky pork

Wulian county in Rizhao 日照, Shandong

all parts of the country

pentagram

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

(music) staff / stave

lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail

Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in north Xinjiang

the Five Legendary Emperors, usually taken to be the Yellow Emperor 黃帝｜黄帝, Zhuan Xu 顓頊｜颛顼, Di Ku 帝嚳｜帝喾, Tang Yao 唐堯｜唐尧 and Yu Shun 虞舜

five viscera of TCM, namely: heart 心, liver 肝, spleen 脾, lungs 肺 and kidneys 腎｜肾

lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom) / fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success)

every few days (idiom)

memorial activity 35 days after a person's death

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

Wuchang, county-level city in Harbin 哈爾濱｜哈尔滨, Heilongjiang

to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb

May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles

bright and multicolored / of rich variety / (fig.) dazzling / glitzy

Wuyuan county in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾｜巴彦淖尔, Inner Mongolia

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

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

burly / strapping / big and strong

three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography

idiot / stupid person / a dope

the sparrow may be small but all its vital organs are there (idiom) / small but complete in every detail

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

to order again and again (idiom)

pentagon

all the trades / people of all trades and professions

chest of drawers

schizandra (Schisandra chinensis) / Magnolia vine

Deinagkistrodon acutus, a species of venomous pit viper, aka five-pace viper (i.e. can grow to five paces)

imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮｜宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死

never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite

lit. to shout out hoping for fives and sixes when gambling with dice; a hubbub of gambling

see 隔三差五

Wuying district of Yichun city 伊春市, Heilongjiang

the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists

wuling powder (decoction of poria mushroom used in TCM) / poria five powder / Hoelen five powder / five ling powder

abbr. for 五卅運動｜五卅运动, The May Thirtieth Movement (1925)

(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)

lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty

15th August / refers to Japanese surrender in WWII on 15th August 1945

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)

Wudaokou neighborhood of Beijing

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

all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display

Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴, Xianbei 鮮卑｜鲜卑, Jie 羯, Di 氐, Qiang 羌, esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六國｜五胡十六国

see 一推六二五

Friday

Wuzhi Mountain (1,840 m), highest mountain in Hainan / Wuzhishan City, Hainan

Chinese character input method for entering characters by numbered strokes (variant of 五筆字型｜五笔字型)

Wuhe county in Bengbu 蚌埠, Anhui