五 (ng5 | wu3) : five; fifth

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五

ng5

wu3

five; fifth

alternate and formal form used on checks, in accounting and banking: 伍

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Stroke count: 4

Level: 1

Radical: 二 (#7)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

五

This word has been viewed 17976 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 20th Apr 2013 06:43

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五毛黨 ng5 mou4 dong2 wu3 mao2 dang3 = fifty cents party (persons supposed to relay government propaganda on Internet sites)

星期五 sing1 kei4 ng5 xing1 qi1 wu3 (PRC), xing1 qi2 wu3 (Taiwan) = Friday

五月 ng5 jyut6 wu3 yue4 = May

五十 ng5 sap6 wu3 shi2 = fifty

禮拜五 lai5 baai3 ng5 li3 bai4 wu3 = 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 wu3 tian1 = five days 國

五百 ng5 baak3 wu3 bai3 = five hundred

五百萬 ng5 baak3 maan6 wu3 bai3 wan4 = five million

五花八門 ng5 faa1 baat3 mun4 wu3 hua1 ba1 men2 = myriad; all kinds of; all sorts of
See all 146 compounds (CantoDict reports 174 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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已經過咗五日粵
It's already been five days.
[Lit. already pass-already five days]

四十除八等於五
Forty divided by eight equals five.
[Lit. forty divide eight equals five. This is okay both for written and spoken Cantonese.]

佢病到五顏六色粵
He is seriously ill.

佢就嚟十五歲嘅啦粵
He's almost 15 years old.
[Lit. he almost 15 year [particles]]

你身高只有五呎九﹐想入籃球隊𠍁水啲噃。粵
Your height of five-foot-nine is not tall enough to enter the basketball team.

方丈已經圓寂五年 ?!
The abbot has passed away for five years
[Sample sentence now uses 方丈 (abbot, head monk) as the subject of the sentence. But the audio still uses 道師 (Taoist priest) which appeared in the older version. As 圓寂 (in the middle of the sentence) is a Buddhist term, I think 方丈 is corre]

我撴嚫個八月十五。粵
I fell on my bottom.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,127822,127824#msg-127824]

你做初一我做十五
tit for tat, an eye for an eye
[Lit. "what you do for the first half of the month, I will do back to you for the second half" i.e do me harm and I will return the favour. See a video featuring this phrase [url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?7,84620]here.[/url]]

妳嘅八月十五好大。粵
Your butt is huge.

四月尾忽然間落場大雪，真係「未食五月粽，寒衣唔入籠」！粵
It suddenly snowed during the end of April. "Until it's time to eat Dragon Boat Festival's dumplings, don't put away your warm clothes," as they say!
[未食五月粽寒衣唔入籠 is a Cantonese saying. There are variations used by Mandarin and other dialects.]

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粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
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