numeric:

• five

noun:

• the fifth day of the month
• five days

adverbial noun:

• May

noun:

• Olympic rings; Olympics ➜ オリンピック

noun:

• fifty

adverbial noun / noun:

• half; 50%; tie; evenness
• 5 parts; 5%

noun:

• the whole body; limbs ［五体］
• the five styles in Japanese calligraphy ➜ 行書・書道・真書・草書・大篆・八分【はっぷん】・隷書・楷書・篆書

noun:

• the five senses

noun:

• five-storied; quintuplicate; fivefold

noun:

• five colors (usu. red, blue, yellow, white and black); five colours

~の noun:

• many kinds; varied

noun:

• melon; gourd ➜ 瓜

noun:

• mixture of ingredients (originally five)
• mixture of minced vegetables, fish, and meat, mixed in a starch (rice, noodles) - abbreviation ➜ 五目飯【ごもくめし】・五目鮨【ごもくずし】・五目そば【ごもくそば】
• gomoku (game); five in a row; go-bang - abbreviation ➜ 五目並べ

noun:

• staff; stave - Music term

noun:

• the five viscera (liver, lungs, heart, kidney and spleen)

noun:

• five and seven
• 35th day after a person's death - abbreviation ➜ 五七日

noun:

• the five Confucian filial-piety relationships

noun:

• five strings; five-stringed instrument

noun:

• pentatonic scale

noun:

• five lowly castes of the ritsuryo system - archaism - obscure term - abbreviation ➜ 五色の賤

noun:

• the five night watches; fifth watch of the night (approx. 3 am to 5 am)

noun:

• the five eyes (physical eye, heavenly eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye and Buddha eye) - Buddhism term

noun:

• pentagram

noun:

• the five elements (in Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water); the five phases; wu xing ➜ 五大【ごだい】
• five practices of the Bodhisattvas - Buddhism term
• the five pillars of Islam ➜ 六信五行

noun:

• the five grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet (awa and kibi))

noun:

• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) - archaism
• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) ➜ 律令制

~する noun:

• to divide into five parts