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ng5
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[1] five; fifth [2] a Chinese family name alternate and formal form used on checks, in accounting and banking: 伍
  Stroke count: 4
Level: 1
Radical: 二 (#7)
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| This character was last edited on 16th Mar 2008 | |
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星期五
sing1 kei4 ng5 = Friday
五月
ng5 jyut6 = May
五十
ng5 sap6 = fifty
禮拜五
lai5 baai3 ng5 = Friday
你做初一，我做十五
nei5 zou6 co1 jat1 ngo5 zou6 sap6 ng5 = (idiom) tit-for-tat; an eye for an eye粵
五天
ng5 tin1 = five days
五百
ng5 baak3 = five hundred
五百萬
ng5 baak3 maan6 = five million
五花八門
ng5 faa1 baat3 mun4 = myriad; all kinds of; all sorts of
五萬
ng5 maan6 = 50 thousandSee all 111 compounds |
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Showing all 3 examples containing 五
佢病到五顏六色 粵
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He is seriously ill.
你身高只有五尺六想入籃球隊有啲噃 粵
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Your height of five feet six inches is not tall enough to enter the basketball team.
四月尾忽然間落場大雪，真係「未食五月粽，寒衣唔入籠」！ 粵
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It suddenly snowed during the end of April. It really goes with the saying "Until one has eaten Dragon Boat Festival's dumplings, do not keep one's warm clothings". [未食五月粽寒衣唔入籠 is a Cantonese saying. There are variations used by Mandarin and other dialects.] Legend 國 : Written Chinese only 粵 : Spoken Cantonese only |
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Decimal representation of this word: 五
Unicode code for this character: U+4e94 (off-site link)
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