noun:

• the five colours: green, yellow, red, white and black; the five colors; five-coloured porcelain; five-colored porcelain

noun:

• godan (verb, verb conjugation) - abbreviation ➜ 五段動詞【ごだんどうし】・五段活用【ごだんかつよう】・一段【いちだん】
• fifth rank (in martial arts, go, etc.)

temporal noun:

• five minutes

noun:

• the five fingers
• leading five; top five

noun:

• the Five Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi) - abbreviation ➜ 五畿内

noun:

• Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China between the 3rd & 5th centuries: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

noun:

• the five virtues
• tripod; three or four-legged kettle stand
• family crest in the shape of such an object

noun:

• five most important temples of a region - obscure term

noun:

• five times

noun:

• 500
• many

noun:

• Five Dynasties (of Chinese history)

noun:

• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) - archaism ➜ 律令制
• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) ➜ 五刑

noun:

• the five sins in Buddhism (murder, theft, adultery, falsehood and drink)

noun:

• division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods - archaism
• the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)

noun:

• Jersey cudweed (species of cottonweed, Gnaphalium affine) ➜ 母子草

noun:

• the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)

noun:

• five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut)
• five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships ［五果］ - Buddhism term
• five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life ［五果］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void) - Buddhism term ➜ 五行【ごぎょう】
• five great wisdom kings - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 五大明王

noun:

• the five precepts (prohibitions against killing, theft, sexual misconduct, lying and intemperance) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai); goyoumatsu - abbreviation ➜ 五葉松

noun / ~の noun:

• pentagon

noun:

• fifth month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term
• satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum) - also written as 杜鵑花 - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Pentateuch

noun:

• the five skandhas (the five aggregates: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness) - archaism - Buddhism term ➜ 五蘊