| 释义 |
five numeral—五 num (almost always used)五个 numExamples:five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence—xiao, a free reed mouth organ with five or more pipes blown from the bottom—first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)—Sixteen Kingdoms of five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)—the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)—Han of the Five dynasties (951-979), one of ten kingdoms during the Five Dynasties, Ten Kingdoms period (907-960)—Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Taoist movement)—Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells—five-stroke code, Chinese character input method—tear off a person's four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment)—five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)—central of the five Zhou dynasty royal academies—Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China—the eye is bewildered by five colors (idiom); a dazzling riot of colors—third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old)—Communist party national congress, in recent times every five years—five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la—the Five Aggregates (from Sanskrit "skandha") (Buddhism)—fourth of the five night watch periods 01:00-03:00 (old)—Five Dynasties (in different contexts, from mythology through Han and the interregnum between Han and Tang)—the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)—heavenly bodies (esp. the sun, moon or five visible planets)—forming groups of three or squads of five (idiom); people stand around in small clumps—umami, one of the five basic tastes (cookery)—infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)—one of the five two hour periods inwhich the night was formerly divided—lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death)—a complete gamut of all five flavors (idiom); every flavor under the sun—Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City—cyclopentene C5H8 (ring of five carbon atoms)—five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat—Sun Yat-sen's Five-power constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan—Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row—The Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period— |