伍

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See also: 五
伍 U+4F0D, 伍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F0D
← 伌
[U+4F0C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 伎 →
[U+4F0E]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 伍

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 伍
Small seal script
ACC-s05781.svg

s05781

Transcribed ancient scripts
ACC-L34452.svg

L34452

ACC-L14830.svg

L14830

ACC-L14831.svg

L14831

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (五) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
吾 *ŋraː, *ŋaː
衙 *ŋraː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ
鼯 *ŋaː
浯 *ŋaː
珸 *ŋaː
郚 *ŋaː
齬 *ŋaː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ
鯃 *ŋaː
娪 *ŋaː
梧 *ŋaː
峿 *ŋaː
五 *ŋaːʔ
伍 *ŋaːʔ
寤 *ŋaːs
啎 *ŋaːs
晤 *ŋaːs
悟 *ŋaːs
逜 *ŋaːs
窹 *ŋaːs
捂 *ŋaːs
鋙 *ŋa, *ŋaʔ
語 *ŋaʔ, *ŋas
圄 *ŋaʔ
敔 *ŋaʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋaːʔ): semantic 亻 + phonetic 五 (OC *ŋaːʔ). Also ideogrammic compound (會意).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • ngó͘/gó͘ - literary;
  • gō͘/gǒ͘ - vernacular.
Note: ngou6 - “five”.
Rime
Character 伍
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 疑古切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋuoX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋuoX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋɔX/
Li
Rong 		/ŋoX/
Wang
Li 		/ŋuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ŋuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wǔ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 伍
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wǔ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nguX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.ŋˁaʔ/
English 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 伍
Reading # 1/1
No. 13148
Phonetic
component 		五
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		五
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋaːʔ/

Definitions[edit]

伍

  1. troop of five soldiers
  2. (figuratively) military
  3. ally; company
  4. Alternative form of 五 (“five”)
  5. A surname​: Wu, Woo, Ng, or Eng.
    伍家崗區 / 伍家岗区  ―  Wǔjiāgǎng Qū  ―  Wujiagang District

Descendants[edit]

  • (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Go
  • (Mandarin) Tagalog: Wu

See also[edit]

Chinese numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 102 103 104 108 1012
Normal
(小寫／小写) 		〇 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 百 千 萬／万 億／亿 兆 (Taiwan)
萬億／万亿 (Mainland China)
Financial
(大寫／大写) 		零 壹 貳／贰 參／叁 肆 伍 陸／陆 柒 捌 玖 拾 佰 仟

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

伍

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. five

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]


Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

伍 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

伍 (ngũ)

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