Meanings
Numeric
1. five; 5
伍 is used in legal documents
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (140 in total)
Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China in 300-500 CE: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)
half; 50%; tie; 5 parts; 5%
fifth (interval)
Examples (54 in total)
Is it fifth period?
Do you have five dollars?
Five times five is twenty-five.
My family consists of five people.
Do you have a table for five?
Take the elevator to the fifth floor.
There were only five people present altogether.
I got five years in prison.
This is five thousand yen in the Japanese Yen.
Five years have gone by since my father died.
We were married five years ago today.
She has five older brothers.
I've been using this smartphone for five years.
He has as many as five brothers.
My office is on the fifth floor.
This book consists of five chapters.
The committee is composed of five students.
He asked $5 for it.
This man has been blind for five years at least.
I have known her for five years.
Our family consists of five members.
Mary paid five dollars for her lunch.
It's been five years since my father died.
It took me five hours to finish the work.
His uncle died five years ago.
There was an accident on Fifth Avenue yesterday.
Last week five students were absent from class.
New York's Fifth Avenue is comparable to Ginza.
The population has doubled in the last five years.
I have heard nothing from him for five years.
It took me five hours to make this kennel.
The judge sentenced him to a jail term of five years.
I have been wearing this overcoat for more than five years.
I owe him 50,000 yen.
He has written five books so far.
I was looking forward to the day when I could see him after five years' separation.
He is far better off than he was five years ago.
It took me five hours to drive from here to Tokyo.
There were no fewer than five women standing outside, claiming to be his wife.
I hear he was released after five years in prison.
We will have been studying English for five years next February.
He was set free after doing five years in prison.
That is a large force with 5,000 soldiers.
The Great Wall of China is more than 5,500 miles long.
More than five years have passed since I came to live in this house.
The square of 5 is 25.
I speak five languages.
The river is five feet deep.
I caught five fish yesterday.
We have five English classes a week.
I will finish the work in five days.
We knocked at the door for five minutes, but in vain.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.