Keyword
five
Info
FrequencyTop 300-400
Type
Kyōiku (1st grade) 
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KankenLevel 10
Heisig5
Readings
(45%)
(29%)
いつ
(25%)
Mnemonic

It has five lines. It looks like a 5. It's a five.

Used in kanji (4 in total)
language
enlightenment
me (ceremonial)
thin five
Used in vocabulary (361 in total)
Examples (121 in total)
It's been five years since my father died.
Five years have gone by since my father died.
My family consists of five people.
We were married five years ago today.
She has five older brothers.
She is five years old.
It took me five hours to finish the work.
More than five years have passed since I came to live in this house.
Do you have a table for five?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
It took me five hours to drive from here to Tokyo.
His uncle died five years ago.
I've been using this smartphone for five years.
I caught five fish yesterday.
There were no fewer than five women standing outside, claiming to be his wife.
There were at least five women standing outside, all claiming to be his wife.
He has as many as five brothers.
I waited for fifteen minutes.
My office is on the fifth floor.
There was an accident on Fifth Avenue yesterday.
This book consists of five chapters.
I have been wearing this overcoat for more than five years.
We have five English classes a week.
I have been studying English for five years.
We have five English lessons a week.
Zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Five more minutes! Please wait five more minutes!
Five minutes later she emerged from the kitchen.
Give me five minutes to finish the last adjustments.
My watch loses five minutes a day.
My watch gains five minutes a day.
The train is due to arrive here in 5 minutes.
Take the elevator to the fifth floor.
He took the elevator to the 5th floor.
I owe him 50,000 yen.
We walked about five miles.
The committee consists of fifteen people.
The committee is composed of five students.
There were only five people present altogether.
He has written five books so far.
He goes to China in May.
He left for Europe a week ago, that is, on the tenth of May.
His birthday is May 5th.
He comes here every five days.
He will arrive on the afternoon of the 5th.
He went to Paris at the end of May.
Our ancestors arrived in this country 150 years ago.
Do you have five dollars?
I paid him five dollars.
There are five apples in this box.
She divided the cake into five pieces.
By the age of 25, she had lived in five different countries.
My father finally learned to drive when he was fifty.
When he was 15, he ran away from home.
Last week five students were absent from class.
There were fifty passengers on board the bus.
Look at the map on page 25.
She lived in five different countries by age 25.
This tour takes in each of the five main islands.
It is just five o'clock.
It's five o'clock somewhere now.
Mike got back from the library at five.
I'll pick you up at your home at five.
The conference continued till 5 o'clock.
It's five in the evening.
He is to come here at five.
They have tea at five.
They left at 5 o'clock, so they ought to be home by 6.
She will be back at five.
We arrived at the station at five.
I was awakened at five o'clock.
The ship will arrive by five o'clock.
I will finish the work in five days.
We knocked at the door for five minutes, but in vain.
When did she leave? Was it at four or five PM?
New York's Fifth Avenue is comparable to Ginza.
Smell is one of the five senses.
Sight is one of the five senses.
He asked $5 for it.
The population has doubled in the last five years.
My father has lived in Nagoya for more than fifteen years.
An egg is about fifty grams.
There are five pencils here.
The river is five feet deep.
This man has been blind for five years at least.
I hear he was released after five years in prison.
The train is traveling at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
My school library has a collection of 2.5 million books.
We will have been studying English for five years next February.
The bus leaves in five minutes.
The train leaves in 5 minutes.
A hundred and fifty diplomats came to that conference.
Is it fifth period?
I have heard nothing from him for five years.
Five times five is twenty-five.
He was set free after doing five years in prison.
I got five years in prison.
I was looking forward to the day when I could see him after five years' separation.
I have known her for five years.
It took me five hours to make this kennel.
That is a large force with 5,000 soldiers.
The Great Lakes supply drinking water.
His debts amounted to five million yen.
This is five thousand yen in the Japanese Yen.
Many restaurants and pubs are on Itsutsugi Street.
Our family consists of five members.
The committee consists of five members.
A general election will be held in May.
In America, rice can be bought for a fifth of what it costs in Japan.
There was a phone call from a 50-year old man who had been told he had a year left to live due to heart disease.
The square of 5 is 25.
The Great Wall of China is more than 5,500 miles long.
The judge sentenced him to a jail term of five years.
Mary paid five dollars for her lunch.
Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.
I speak five languages.
He is far better off than he was five years ago.
The new model car will be brought to market in May.
I'd like to confirm my hotel reservation on May 5th.
In England, Labor Day is in May.
The Pacific Ocean is one of the five oceans.