five; surname

HSK 1 #279

DEFINITIONS

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STROKES

WORDS

岳 wǔ yuè Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山[Heng2 Shan1] in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山|恒山[Heng2 Shan1] in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山[Song1 Shan1] in Henan
角形 wǔ jiǎo xíng pentagon
毕宿 bì xiù wǔ Aldebaran or Alpha Tauri
零点 líng diǎn wǔ zero point five, 0.5; one half
一退六二 yī tuì liù èr wǔ lit. 1 divided by 16 is 0.0625 (abacus rule); fig. to deny responsibility; to pass the buck; also written 一推六二五[yi1 tui4 liu4 er4 wu3]
三下除二 sān xià wǔ chú èr three, set five remove two (abacus rule); efficiently; quickly and easily
三不时 sān bù wǔ shí (Tw) from time to time; frequently
三不時 sān bù wǔ shí (Tw) from time to time; frequently
三令申 sān lìng wǔ shēn to order again and again (idiom)
三侠义 sān xiá wǔ yì Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆
三俠義 sān xiá wǔ yì Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆
三皇帝 sān huáng wǔ dì three sovereigns 三皇[san1 huang2] and five emperors 五帝[wu3 di4] of myth and legend; the earliest system of Chinese historiography
三纲常 sān gāng wǔ cháng three principles and five virtues (idiom); the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信)
三綱常 sān gāng wǔ cháng three principles and five virtues (idiom); the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信)
上下千年 shàng xià wǔ qiān nián popular history of China in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹余章
二一添作 èr yī tiān zuò wǔ lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning); to share fairly between two parties; to go fifty-fifty
二十史 èr shí wǔ shǐ twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions)
七 wǔ qī memorial activity 35 days after a person's death
七一代 wǔ qī yī dài generation of 1957; refers to Mao's anti-rightist purge of 1957
七干校 wǔ qī gàn xiào May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution); abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校[wu3 qi1 gan4 bu4 xue2 xiao4]
七幹校 wǔ qī gàn xiào May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution); abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校[wu3 qi1 gan4 bu4 xue2 xiao4]
七干部学校 wǔ qī gàn bù xué xiào May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution); abbr. to 五七幹校|五七干校
七幹部學校 wǔ qī gàn bù xué xiào May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution); abbr. to 五七幹校|五七干校
人墓碑记 wǔ rén mù bēi jì Five tombstone inscriptions (1628), written by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥[Zhang1 Pu3]
人墓碑記 wǔ rén mù bēi jì Five tombstone inscriptions (1628), written by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥[Zhang1 Pu3]