Character · Numbers
五
さみだれ samidareごぶ gobuごじゅう gojūしちじゅうごにち shichijūgo-nichi
five
Composition
Origin
An old sign of crossed strokes between two lines, borrowed to write the number five.
In the thoughts
- 五分gobuhalf an inch
- 五月雨samidareearly-summer rains
- 五十gojūfifty
- 七十五日shichijūgo-nichiseventy-five days
- 十四五jūshigofourteen-fifteen
- 十五万jūgoman150,000
- 五里gorifive leagues
Proverbs carrying this character
- 113 一寸の虫にも五分の魂 Even a one-inch insect has half an inch of spirit.
- 162 五月雨をあつめて早し最上川 Gathering the rains of June, how swiftly flows the Mogami.
- 176 明日の百より今日の五十 Better fifty today than a hundred tomorrow.
- 206 人の噂も七十五日 A rumor lives but seventy-five days.
- 225 五月雨や大河を前に家二軒 June rains — facing the swollen river, two houses.
- 231 鶏頭の十四五本もありぬべし Cockscombs — there must be fourteen, maybe fifteen.
- 232 春や昔十五万石の城下かな Spring — long ago, a proud castle town of a hundred fifty thousand koku.
- 245 五里霧中 Lost in five leagues of fog.