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  *男* | 男* | *男
male / Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位
HSK 1
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  *五* | 五* | *五
five / 5
HSK 1
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  *钟* | 钟* | *钟
a (large) bell (CL:) / clock (CL:) / amount of time; o'clock (CL:點|点,,) (as in 三點鐘|三点钟 "three o'clock" or "three hours" or 五分鐘|五分钟 "five minutes" etc)
HSK 3
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  *公* | 公* | *公
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
HSK 6
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  *筑* | 筑* | *筑
five-string lute / Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
HSK 7-9
five-star (hotel)
HSK 7-9
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  *更* | 更* | *更
to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
metal hardware (nuts and bolts) / the five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron and tin 金銀銅鐵錫|金银铜铁锡
Mt Tai in Shandong, eastern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
the five visible planets, namely: Mercury 水星, Venus 金星, Mars 火星, Jupiter 木星, Saturn 土星
five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)
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  *伯* | 伯* | *伯
father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位
the five fingers of one's hand
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  *伍* | 伍* | *伍
squad of five soldiers / to associate with / five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood , fire , earth , metal , water
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  *子* | 子* | *子
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
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  *凉* | 凉* | *凉
the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)
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  *侯* | 侯* | *侯
marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位 / nobleman; high official
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
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  *候* | 候* | *候
to wait / to inquire after / to watch / season / climate / (old) period of five days
red star / five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat / hot film star
third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1]
five continents / the world
fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old)
south of the five ranges / old term for south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi
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  *斛* | 斛* | *斛
ancient measuring vessel / fifty liters / dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks)
Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经
five viscera and six bowels (TCM)
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
several / three or five
Wuliangye liquor / Five Grain liquor
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  *甸* | 甸* | *甸
suburbs or outskirts / one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China / official in charge of fields (old)
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
Later Tang of the Five Dynasties (923-936)
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
function / capability / sense (i.e. the five senses of sight 視|视, hearing 聽|听, smell , taste and touch 觸|触) / faculty (i.e. specific ability)
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
Tang of the Five Southern Dynasties 937-975
five-card stud (card game) (from English "show hand")
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  *刖* | 刖* | *刖
to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑)
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  *綷* | 綷* | *綷
five-color silk / see 綷縩
same as 舊唐書|旧唐书, History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
the national emblem of the PRC (a red circle containing the five stars of the PRC flag over Tiananmen 天安門|天安门)
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
infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)
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
Nanyue district of Hengyang city 衡陽市|衡阳市, Hunan / Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
to tear off a person's four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment) / to tear limb from limb
Later Han or Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) / Later Han of the Five Dynasties (947-950)
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
Mt Heng in Shanxi, northern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 / Hengshan district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
umami, one of the five basic tastes (cookery)
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
another name for Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong as principal or ancestor of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 / Mt Tai as resting place for departed souls
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
Later Zhou of the Five Dynasties (951-960), centered on Shandong and Hebei, with capital at Kaifeng 開封|开封
to clap one's hands / to clap each other's hands / high five
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  *喾* | 喾* | *喾
one of the five legendary emperors, also called 高辛氏
three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography
joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row
Later Liang of the Five Dynasties (907-923)
Deinagkistrodon acutus, a species of venomous pit viper, aka five-pace viper (i.e. can grow to five paces)
never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite
five crops, e.g. millet , soybean , sesame , barley 麥|麦, rice or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley
Mt Heng 恆山|恒山 in Shanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
Later Jin of the Five Dynasties (936-946)
Mt Song in Henan, central mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
Han of the Five dynasties (951-979), one of ten kingdoms during the Five Dynasties, Ten Kingdoms period (907-960)
Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
(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)
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
Wang code, same as 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
lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty
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  *羜* | 羜* | *羜
five-month-old lamb
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 )
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  *蓰* | 蓰* | *蓰
(grass) / increase five fold
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
Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 at Dagukou 大沽口)
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
one of the five legendary emperors, also called 嚳|喾
Zhuanxu, one of the Five Legendary Emperors 五帝, grandson of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝, trad. reigned 2513-2435 BC
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
King Gou Jian of Yue (c. 470 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸
acupuncture point (any point on any meridian) / category of 12 specific acupuncture points near the wrist or ankle, each lying on a different meridian (one of five categories collectively termed 五輸穴|五输穴)
the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)
the Book of History, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经, a compendium of documents which make up the oldest extant texts of Chinese history, from legendary times down to the time of Confucius, also known as 尚書經|尚书经, 尚書|尚书, 書|书
Yu Shun, one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝
Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe) / Japanese: gomoku / gobang
Zhang Pu (1602-1641), Ming dynasty scholar and prolific writer, proponent of 複社|复社 cultural renewal movement, author of Five tombstone inscriptions 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记
five continents / the whole world
Duke Xiang of Song (reigned 650-637 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸
wuling powder (decoction of poria mushroom used in TCM) / poria five powder / Hoelen five powder / five ling powder
History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls

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