漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
伍: five, five-man squad
Also: file, line
JLPT N16 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 五 is drawn in
6 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ゴgo · on'yomi · in compounds
- 伍長ごちょうcorporal
- 伍するごするto rank with; to rank among
- 伍ごfive; 5
Also read いつつ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side伍 five · 亻 + 五
vs在 exist · 才 + 土In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wǔ
Same form: 伍 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 伍 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 伍 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wǔ most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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