The kanji 五: meaning, readings and stroke order
五
- Meaning
- five
- On reading
- ゴ go
- Kun reading
- いつ itsu、いつ(つ) itsutsu
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 二 two
- Level
- Level 1 · grade 1
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- số năm (ngũ)
- Japanese
- かずの ご。いつつ。
- Korean
- 다섯 (오)
- Chinese
- 数字五
Readings, words and example sentences
ゴ go · on reading
五月
May
五月は 花が きれいです。
The flowers are pretty in May.
いつ itsu · kun reading
五日
five days; the 5th
あと 五日 まちます。
I will wait five more days.
いつ(つ) itsutsu · kun reading
五つ
five (things)
小さな 石が 五つ あります。
There are five small stones.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.