五

Glyph origin
Originally written, consisting of with a bar on the top and bottom. One hypothesis explains that this may have meant five because when counting on a single hand, one first counts to five and then crosses back the other way to ten.

Etymology 1
From.

Definitions

 * 1) five
 * 2) . Wu (mainland China, Taiwan), Ng (Hong Kong)
 * 3)  The size of type between  (little 5) and  (little 4), standardized as 10½ point.

Descendants
Others:

Kanji

 * 1) five

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) five

Etymology 2
From. Compare modern 🇨🇬 reading.

Noun

 * 1) five
 * 2) a name of a hole of a wind instrument

Noun

 * 1) five

Etymology
From.