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U+4E94, 五
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E94

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+3224, ㈤
PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH FIVE

Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
U+3284, ㊄
CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH FIVE

Enclosed CJK Letters and Months

Translingual

Stroke order
4 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

(Kangxi radical 7, +2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一木一 (MDM), four-corner 10107, composition 𫝀 or or 𠃍)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 86, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 257
  • Dae Jaweon: page 178, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 11, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4E94

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts





References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Originally written 𠄡, consisting of with a bar on the top and bottom. One hypothesis explains that this may have meant five because when counting on a single hand, one first counts to five and then crosses back the other way to ten.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
alternative forms financial

𠄡
𫝀

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l/b-ŋa (five).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ng3 - vernacular;
  • u3 - literary (e.g. 五香).
Note:
  • ngô - vernacular;
  • ngū - literary.
Note:
  • gō͘/gǒ͘/ňg - vernacular;
  • ngó͘/gó͘/gú - literary.
Note:
  • ngou6 - vernacular;
  • ngou2, u2 - literary.
    • (Leizhou)
      • Leizhou Pinyin: ngeu6 / ngu2
      • Sinological IPA: /ŋɛu³³/, /ŋu³¹/
Note:
  • ngeu6 - vernacular;
  • ngu2 - literary.
Note:
  • 6ng - vernacular;
  • 5u, 1(o)u - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter nguX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋɔX/
Li
Rong
/ŋoX/
Wang
Li
/ŋuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ng5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ nguX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.ŋˁaʔ/
English five

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13147
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋaːʔ/

Definitions

  1. five
  2. a surname. Wu (mainland China, Taiwan), Ng (Hong Kong)
  3. (printing) The size of type between 小五 (little 5) and 小四 (little 4), standardized as 10½ point.

See also

Chinese numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 102 103 104 106 108 1012
Normal
(小寫小写)
, , , , ,
十千 (Malaysia, Singapore)
百萬百万,
(Philippines),
面桶 (Philippines)
亿 (Taiwan)
萬億万亿 (Mainland China)
Financial
(大寫大写)

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: () (go)
  • Korean: 오(五) (o)
  • Vietnamese: ngũ ()

Others:

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation

Definitions

  1. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note la (6).
  2. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note la (6).

Derived terms

References

Japanese

Japanese cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal :

Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. five

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
いつ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *etu.

Pronunciation

Noun

(いつ) (itsu

  1. five
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC nguX). Compare modern Hokkien reading gō͘.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

() (go

  1. five
  2. a name of a hole of a wind instrument
Coordinate terms
Japanese numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Regular (れい) (rei)
(ゼロ) (zero)
(いち) (ichi) () (ni) (さん) (san) (よん) (yon)
() (shi)
() (go) (ろく) (roku) (なな) (nana)
(しち) (shichi)
(はち) (hachi) (きゅう) (kyū)
() (ku)
(じゅう) ()
Formal (いち) (ichi) () (ni) (さん) (san) (じゅう) ()
90 100 300 600 800 1,000 3,000 8,000 10,000 100,000,000
Regular (きゅう)(じゅう) (kyūjū) (ひゃく) (hyaku)
(いっ)(ぴゃく) (ippyaku)
(さん)(びゃく) (sanbyaku) (ろっ)(ぴゃく) (roppyaku) (はっ)(ぴゃく) (happyaku) (せん) (sen)
(いっ)(せん) (issen)
(さん)(ぜん) (sanzen) (はっ)(せん) (hassen) (いち)(まん) (ichiman) (いち)(おく) (ichioku)
Formal (いち)(まん) (ichiman)
1012 8×1012 1013 1016 6×1016 8×1016 1017 1018
(いっ)(ちょう) (itchō) (はっ)(ちょう) (hatchō) (じゅっ)(ちょう) (jutchō) (いっ)(けい) (ikkei) (ろっ)(けい) (rokkei) (はっ)(けい) (hakkei) (じゅっ)(けい) (jukkei) (ひゃっ)(けい) (hyakkei)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

() (i

  1. five

Korean

Etymology

Korean numbers (edit)
50
 ←  4 5 6  → 
    Native isol.: 다섯 (daseot)
    Native attr.: 다섯 (daseot), (archaic) (dat)
    Sino-Korean: (o)
    Hanja:
    Ordinal: 다섯째 (daseotjjae)

From Middle Chinese (MC nguX).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 ᅌᅩᆼ〯 (Yale: ngwǒ)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527 다ᄉᆞᆺ〮 (Yale: tàsós) 오〯 (Yale: )

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 다섯 (daseot o))

  1. Hanja form? of (five).

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: ngũ
: Nôm readings: ngũ, ngủ, ngỗ

  1. chữ Hán form of ngũ (five).

Compounds

References

Zhuang

Numeral

  1. Sawndip form of haj (five)