伍

See also: 五

Translingual

Han character

伍 (radical 9 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人一木一 (OMDM), four-corner 2121₇, composition ⿰亻五)

1. five (used normally on official documents or checks to avoid forgery)
2. troops
3. Wu, a common Chinese surname

References

• KangXi: page 95, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 435
• Dae Jaweon: page 202, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 118, character 1
• Unihan data for U+4F0D

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		伍

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǔ (wu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): ngó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: wu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuu
    • IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ng⁵
    • Yale: ńgh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngó͘
    • Tâi-lô: ngó͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /ŋɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋɔ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (伍, reconstructed)
Character (伍), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 疑古切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋuoX/	/ŋuoX/	/ŋoX/	/ŋuoX/	/ŋɔX/	/ŋuX/	/ŋoX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (伍, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
伍								wǔ								‹ nguX ›								/*C.ŋˤaʔ/								group of five
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
伍					13148					五					魚					0					五					/*ŋaːʔ/

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Go, Wu

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Japanese

Kanji

伍

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: ご (go)
• Kun: くみ (kumi), いつつ (itsutsu)

Compounds

伍長

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Korean

Hanja

伍 (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune-Reischauer o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

伍 (ngũ)

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