wǔ
five
Five 五 people 亻; 五 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 伍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
ranks | ||
to associate with | ||
to be discharged from military service | ||
to be outdated | ||
to enlist |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.ŋˤaʔ | nguX | wǔ | group of five |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 17.6518% of movies
1179th most common character in movies
1472nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+4F0D |
Shuowen | “伍,相參伍也。从人,从五。” |
Sources
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