Character Details
| five | Ascii: 20540 | w88 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 五 | wǔ | oo | 3 | 一 (horizontal) + 二 (two) + 丨 (vertical) → five | 五 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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This is just the kanji for three plus two vertical lines giving us a total of five. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - At five in the afternoon | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 77 - 一 | yī | ONE | one, horizontal line | single horizontal stroke | 一 丁 七 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 一 (horizontal) + 二 (two) + 丨 (vertical) → five | 一 (line) | — | pure semantic | ||||||||