Results for “五”

fifth (musical interval)

pentathlon

five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)

five-spice powder

(idiom) to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment) / (fig.) to tear apart / to utterly destroy / to brutally dismember

five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / also written 五瘟神

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

1 divided by 16 is 0.0625 (abacus rule) / (fig.) to deny responsibility / to pass the buck

see 一推六二五[yī tuī liù èr wǔ]

three, set five remove two (abacus rule) / efficiently / quickly and easily

(Tw) from time to time / frequently

several / three or five

in groups of three or four (idiom)

to order again and again (idiom)

over and over again (idiom)

three sovereigns 三皇[sān huáng] and five emperors 五帝[wǔ dì] of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography

three principles and five virtues (idiom) / the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信)

lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty

twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions)

(idiom) to make a show of being decent and proper / to display phony or hypocritical behavior

pitch-dark (idiom)

manyprickle (Acanthopanax senticosus), root used in TCM

lit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom) / fig. to punish the guilty and the innocent alike / to put the blame on both parties

lit. to shout out hoping for fives and sixes when gambling with dice / a hubbub of gambling

Zhou Enlai's Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence / 1954 Panchsheel series of agreements between PRC and India

(idiom) fragmented / scattered / in disarray / at sixes and sevens

(math.) to round up or down / to round off

never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom) / living as a parasite

Big5 Chinese character coding (developed by Taiwanese companies from 1984)

great jerboa (Allactaga major)

as if lost in a thick fog (idiom) / in a fog / muddled / completely unfamiliar with sth

of great erudition and scholarship (idiom)

xylitol / also written 木糖醇[mù táng chún]

sun, moon and the five visible planets

(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Táo Qián], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary

bachelor (lit. fifth child of the Wangs)

modern pentathlon

Aldebaran or Alpha Tauri

the eye is bewildered by five colors (idiom) / a dazzling riot of colors

fifth column (subversive group)