五分咲き | half-florescent |
五輪のマーク | five-ring Olympic emblem |
念五日 | 25 days |
五月祭 | May Day, May Festival |
五位鷺 | black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), night heron |
五女 | fifth daughter |
五男 | fifth son |
五明後日 | four days from now (five days in some places) |
週五日 | five days a week |
四当五落 | sleep four hours and pass, sleep five hours and fail (when cramming for university entrance exams) |
五本 | five (long cylindrical things) |
五形拳 | Wu Xing Fist, Five Form Fist (Dragon, Snake, Tiger, Crane, Leopard) |
五車星 | Auriga (constellation), the Charioteer |
五分の一 | one fifth part |
上位五番 | last five matches of makushita division wrestlers |
五面体 | pentahedron |
四書五経 | the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, the Nine Chinese Classics |
五風十雨 | seasonable rains and winds, halcyon weather, halcyon times of peace |
五分 | to divide into five parts |
五分 | five minutes |
陰陽五行 | the cosmic dual forces (yin and yang) and the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth) in Chinese cosmology |
五穀豊穣 五穀豊饒 | huge harvest (of the five grains), bumper crop, abundant crop |
五言絶句 | poem of four lines, each of five (Chinese) characters |
五言律詩 | poem of eight lines, each of five (Chinese) characters |
五十知命 | At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius) |
五体満足 | with no physical defects, in perfectly good health, sound in wind and limb |
五月雨式 | off and on manner, intermittent style, dragging on and on |
四の五の言う | to grumble about something (trivial) |
五芒星 五紡星 | pentagram (as used in divination, etc.) |
五音 | pentatonic scale |
五葉松 | Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai) |
五葉 | Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai), goyoumatsu |
五山 | five most important temples of a region |
京都五山 | Kyoto Gozan, the five most important Rinzai temples of Kyoto, as well as Nanzen-ji |
むつ五郎 鯥五郎 | mudskipper (Boleophthalmus pectinirostris), goggle-eyed goby |
五本指 | top 5 (counting with fingers) |
五本指靴下 | five-toed socks |
五本指ソックス | five-toed socks |
五十日 | days of the month ending in 5 or 0 (when payments are often due) |
五段活用 | conjugation (inflection, declension) of godan verbs |
葦五位 | yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis) |
五夜 | the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am) |