five / 5

not to have / no / none / not / to lack / un- / -less

to dance / to wield / to brandish

(bound form) house / (bound form) room

mistake / error / to miss / to harm / to delay / to neglect / mistakenly

to enclose / to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears) / to cover up (an affair) / contrary / to contradict

fog / mist / CL: 場｜场, 陣｜阵

do not

(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself

abbr. for country names that begin with 烏｜乌: Ukraine 烏克蘭｜乌克兰, Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦｜乌兹别克斯坦 etc / surname Wu

crow / black

used in 烏拉｜乌拉 / used in 烏拉草｜乌拉草

surname Wu

(old) I; my

Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武｜孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书

Chen Sheng (died 208 BC), Qin dynasty rebel, leader of the Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising 陳勝吳廣起義｜陈胜吴广起义

dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth

(literary) Oh! / Ah!

surname Wu

martial / military

surname Wu / area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai / name of states in southern China at different historical periods

(lit.) village of three households / the Three Family Village, an essay column in a Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓｜邓拓, Wu Han 吳晗｜吴晗 and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙, criticized as anti-Party during the Cultural Revolution

Shuang river in Hunan and Guangdong (modern Wu river 武水)

fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / fifth in order / letter "E" or Roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / penta

small rooms facing or to the side of the main hall or veranda

Wu'an, county-level city in Handan 邯鄲｜邯郸, Hebei

to play the xiao 簫｜箫 (mouth organ) / to beg while playing pipes; cf politician Wu Zixu 伍子胥, c. 520 BC destitute refugee in Wu town, 吳市吹簫｜吴市吹箫 / to busk / virtuoso piper wins a beauty, cf 玉人吹簫｜玉人吹箫 / (slang) fellatio / blowjob

surname Wu

(literary) no / don't / to not have / nobody

inferior gem / a kind of jade

(Wu dialect) bum / wretched-looking tramp who lives by begging or stealing

Wu Qi (440-381 BC), military leader and politician of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), author of Wuzi 吳子｜吴子, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书

tungsten (chemistry)

affair / business / matter / to be engaged in / to attend to / by all means

to hate / to loathe / ashamed / to fear / to slander

Eastern Wu (222-280) / the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權｜孙权

surname Wu

squad of five soldiers / to associate with / five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

surname Wu / ancient place name

oh (expression of agreement or surprise) / (Cantonese) not

you (Wu dialect) / I, me (classical)

Wu Zetian (624-705), Tang empress, reigned 690-705

surname Wu / also pr. [Wu2]

witch / wizard / shaman / also pr. [wu2]

7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse / ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)

to comprehend / to apprehend / to become aware

variant of 污

variant of 污

(bound form) low area within a surrounding barrier / (literary) small castle; fort

Wu Song, a heroic outlaw of Liangshan Marsh in the classic novel Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传, whose exploits include killing a tiger with his bare hands

Wu Mengchao (1922-), Chinese medical scientist and surgeon specializing in liver and gallbladder disorders

(literary) to have tender affection for / (literary) discouraged; disappointed / (literary) startled

surname Wu

cut off the feet / rising to a height / towering / bald

duck

(onom.) for humming or whimpering

Hongwu Emperor, also written Hung-wu Ti, reign name of first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋 (1328-1398), reigned 1386-1398, temple name 明太祖

(Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our

to meet (socially)

Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, given by King Gou Jian 勾踐｜勾践 of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu

variant of 蕪｜芜

to insult / to ridicule / to disgrace

Sterculia platanifolia

used in 蜈蚣

to plaster / whitewash

fluorene C13H10 / (old) name of an edible wild plant

beautiful

flatter / to please

disobedient / unfilial

to accuse falsely

Wu dialects (spoken primarily in Shanghai and surrounding areas)

(bound form) to rush about / to strive for

Mt Wu on the Changjiang River (Yangtze) by the Three Gorges

low stool

surname Wu

equal / well-matched / to violate

name invented for herself by Tang empress Wu Zetian 武則天｜武则天

bare hill

stag / herd

stupid (Wu dialect)

used in 鸚鵡｜鹦鹉

flying squirrel

name of a mountain

(name of several rivers in China)

variant of 塢｜坞

King Helu of Wu (-496 BC, reigned 514-496 BC) / also called 闔廬｜阖庐

to oppose / to gore

dig (a pond) / stagnant water

obstinate, disobedient, intractable

Zhou Yu (175-210), famous general of the southern Wu kingdom and victor of the battle of Redcliff / in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义, absolutely no match for Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮｜诸葛亮

a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩｜两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀｜音读. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)

obstinate, perverse

used in 靰鞡

General Lü Meng 呂蒙｜吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu)

place name

(flat) mole

happy / used in historical names

to warm sth up

inferior gem / a kind of jade

used in 逢俉