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五

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五 Five

On'yomi Chinese-derived reading

ご

Mostly used when 五 combines with other kanji in compound words.

Kun'yomi native Japanese reading

いつ、いつつ

Mostly used when 五 stands alone; the lighter kana are written after the kanji.

Strokes
4
JLPT
N5
Taught in
Primary year 1
Frequency
#31

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Kanji readings, meanings and frequency from KANJIDIC2, © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. JLPT levels from Jonathan Waller's JLPT resources (CC BY).