伍
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Translingual
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Han character
[edit]伍 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人一木一 (OMDM), four-corner 21217, composition ⿰亻五)
References
[edit]- Kangxi Dictionary: page 95, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 435
- Dae Jaweon: page 202, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 118, character 1
- Unihan data for U+4F0D
Chinese
[edit]Glyph origin
[edit]| Historical forms of the character 伍 |
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋaːʔ): semantic 亻 + phonetic 五 (OC *ŋaːʔ). Also ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意).
Etymology 1
[edit]| simp. and trad. |
伍 | |
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Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Eastern Min (BUC): ngū
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gou3 / ngou5
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 5u; 6wu; 6ng
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: wǔ
- Zhuyin: ㄨˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: wǔ
- Wade–Giles: wu3
- Yale: wǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuu
- Palladius: у (u)
- Sinological IPA (key): /u²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: ng5
- Yale: ńgh
- Cantonese Pinyin: ng5
- Guangdong Romanization: ng5
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋ̍¹³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: m2 / m4
- Sinological IPA (key): /m̩⁵⁵/, /m̩²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- m2 - "five", surname;
- m4 - troops.
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ńg
- Hakka Romanization System: ngˋ
- Hagfa Pinyim: ng3
- Sinological IPA: /ŋ̍³¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: ngˊ
- Sinological IPA: /ŋ²⁴/
- (Meixian)
- (Changting)
- Changting Pinyin: ng3
- Sinological IPA: /ŋ̍⁴²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ngū
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋu³³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: gou3
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gô
- Sinological IPA (key): /kɔu⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: gou3
- Sinological IPA (key): /kɔu³³²/
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: ngou5
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ngō
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋɔu¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: ngou5
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋɔu²¹/
- (Putian)
- gou3 - literary;
- ngou5 - vernacular.
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gó͘
- Tâi-lô: góo
- Phofsit Daibuun: gor
- Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡɔ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngó͘
- Tâi-lô: ngóo
- Phofsit Daibuun: ngor
- Sinological IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ŋɔ̃⁵³/
- Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋɔ̃⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gǒ͘
- Tâi-lô: gǒo
- Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡɔ²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gō͘
- Tâi-lô: gōo
- Phofsit Daibuun: go
- Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɡɔ³³/
- Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɡɔ²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- ngó͘/gó͘ - literary (incl. surname);
- gō͘/gǒ͘ - vernacular.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: ngou2 / ngou6
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngóu / ngŏu
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋou⁵²/, /ŋou³⁵/
- 3hhu - literary;
- 3ngg - vernacular;
- 2u - only in 隊伍 “company”..
- Middle Chinese: nguX
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.ŋˤaʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːʔ/
Definitions
[edit]伍
- troop of five soldiers
- (figuratively) military
- ally; company
- (financial) alternative form of 五 (“five”)
- a surname, Wu, Woo, Ng, or Eng
- 伍連德/伍连德 ― Wǔ Liándé ― Wu Lien-teh (Malayan Chinese physician and epidemiologist)
- 伍家崗區/伍家岗区 ― Wǔjiāgǎng Qū ― Wujiagang District
See also
[edit]| Chinese numbers | |||||||||||||||||
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| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 106 | 108 | 1012 | |
| Normal (小寫 / 小写) |
〇, 零, 空 | 一, 蜀 | 二, 兩 / 两 | 三 | 四 | 五 | 六 | 七 | 八 | 九 | 十 | 百 | 千 | 萬 / 万, 十千 (Malaysia, Singapore) |
百萬 / 百万, 桶(Philippines), 面桶 (Philippines) |
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 | ||||
In Min Nan numbers, the vernacular (白) pronunciation is the more common pronunciation, while the literary (文) reading is used for reading numbers out loud, such as in phone numbers. Please note that this usage is similar to the usage of the variant 幺 for the numeral 一 in Mandarin.
Compounds
[edit]- 伍伯
- 伍員乘潮 / 伍员乘潮
- 伍員抉目 / 伍员抉目
- 伍員鞭屍 / 伍员鞭尸
- 伍子胥
- 伍家 (Wǔjiā)
- 伍家崗 / 伍家岗 (Wǔjiāgǎng)
- 伍山 (Wǔshān)
- 伍洛 (Wǔluò)
- 伍相廟 / 伍相庙 (Wǔxiàngmiào)
- 伍茲 / 伍兹 (Wǔzī)
- 伍長 / 伍长
- 入伍 (rùwǔ)
- 卒伍
- 參伍 / 参伍
- 噲伍 / 哙伍
- 士伍
- 恥與為伍 / 耻与为伍 (chǐyǔwéiwǔ)
- 本伍
- 歸伍 / 归伍
- 火伍
- 為伍 / 为伍 (wéiwǔ)
- 燕雀伍
- 砥兵礪伍 / 砥兵砺伍
- 簿伍
- 羞與噲伍 / 羞与哙伍
- 羞與為伍 / 羞与为伍 (xiūyǔwéiwǔ)
- 老行伍
- 與噲為伍 / 与哙为伍
- 落伍 (luòwǔ)
- 行伍 (hángwǔ)
- 行伍出身
- 超伍
- 退伍 (tuìwǔ)
- 部伍
- 鄰伍 / 邻伍
- 配伍 (pèiwǔ)
- 閭伍 / 闾伍
- 隊伍 / 队伍 (duìwǔ)
- 隊伍行列 / 队伍行列
- 黨伍 / 党伍
Descendants
[edit]Others:
Etymology 2
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伍 | |
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From 亻 (denoting one octave higher in Kunqu) + 五 (wǔ).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: wǔ
- Zhuyin: ㄨˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: wǔ
- Wade–Giles: wu3
- Yale: wǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuu
- Palladius: у (u)
- Sinological IPA (key): /u²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Definitions
[edit]伍
References
[edit]- “伍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- “伍”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
- 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “伍”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 722.
Japanese
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[edit]Readings
[edit]Compounds
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]| Kanji in this term |
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| 伍 |
| ご Jinmeiyō |
| on'yomi |
From Middle Chinese 伍 (MC nguX).
The numeral sense is a substitute spelling for 五 (go, “five”), likely borrowed from similar usage of written Chinese 伍 (“five”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (financial, archaic) the number five, 5 (used only in legal documents, otherwise 五)
- a military squad (usu. of five people); a group
Usage notes
[edit]Legal uses arose due to the relative ease with which certain number kanji can be fraudulently altered to look like other number kanji. For instance, 三 (san, “three”) could be modified to look like 五 (go, “five”), but it cannot be modified to look like 伍 (go, “five”, in legal contexts).
Etymology 2
[edit]| Kanji in this term |
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| 伍 |
| ウー Jinmeiyō |
| irregular |
Pronunciation
[edit]Number
[edit]See also
[edit]- 大字 (daiji, “big character”, more-complicated kanji used as phonetic replacements for simpler numeric kanji, in order to prevent fraudulent modification)
Korean
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Chinese 伍 (MC nguX). Recorded as Middle Korean 오〯 (wǒ) (Yale: wo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.
Hanja
[edit]伍 (eumhun 다섯사람 오 (daseotsaram o))
Compounds
[edit]References
[edit]- 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]
Vietnamese
[edit]Han character
[edit]- five
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