| 五 | wǔ | five; 5 |
| 五年计划 | wǔ nián jì huà | Five-Year Plan |
| 五边形 | wǔ biān xíng | pentagon |
| 五一 | wǔ yī | 5-1 (May 1st) |
| 二百五 | èr bǎi wǔ | idiot; stupid person; a dope |
| 五代 | wǔ dài | Five dynasties (in different contexts, from mythology through to Han and the interregnum between Han and Tang); the five dynasties forming the interregnum between Tang and Song (936-947), namely: Later Liang 后梁, Later Tang 后唐, Later Jin 后晋, Later Han 后汉, Later Zhou 后周 |
| 五行 | wǔ xíng | five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 |
| 五四运动 | Wǔ sì Yùn dòng | May Fourth Movement; Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles |
| 五音 | wǔ yīn | five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la; five initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齿音, 唇音 |
| 五色 | wǔ sè | multi-colored; the rainbow; garish |
| 五角星 | wǔ jiǎo xīng | pentagram |
| 五彩 | wǔ cǎi | five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue); multicolored |
| 三纲五常 | sān gāng wǔ cháng | 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 义, propriety 礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信) |
| 五星 | wǔ xīng | the five visible planets, namely: Mercury 水星, Venus 金星, Mars 火星, Jupiter 木星, Saturn 土星 |
| 四舍五入 | sì shě wǔ rù | to round up to the nearest integer; to discard four, but treat five as whole (of decimal points) |
| 五星红旗 | wǔ xīng hóng qí | five-starred red flag (PRC national flag) |
| 五岭 | wǔ lǐng | the five ranges separating Hunan and Jiangxi from south China, esp. Guandong and Guangxi, namely: Dayu 大庾岭, Dupang 都庞岭, Qitian 骑田岭, Mengzhu 萌渚岭 and Yuecheng 越城岭 |
| 五更 | wǔ gēng | fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old) |
| 三侠五义 | Sān xiá wǔ yì | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 |
| 五彩缤纷 | wǔ cǎi bīn fēn | all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display |
| 五台 | Wǔ tái | Wutai city and county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi |
| 五代十国 | wǔ dài shí guó | Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979) |
| 五常 | wǔ cháng | five constant virtues of Confucianism, namely: benevolence 仁, righteousness 义, propriety 礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信; five cardinal relationships of Confucianism (between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, brothers, friends); five phases of Chinese philosophy: water 水, fire 火, wood 木, metal 金, earth 土; Wuchang county level city in Harbin 哈尔滨, Heilongjiang |
| 五谷 | wǔ gǔ | five crops, e.g. millet 粟, soya bean 豆, sesame 麻, barley 麦, rice 稻 or other variants; all crops; all grains; oats, peas, beans and barley |
| 五脏 | wǔ zàng | five viscera of traditional Chinese medicine, namely: heart 心, liver 肝, spleen 脾, lungs 肺 and kidneys 肾 |
| 四分五裂 | sì fēn wǔ liè | all split up and in pieces (idiom); disunity (in an organization); complete lack of unity; to disintegrate; falling apart; to be at sixes and sevens |
| 五光十色 | wǔ guāng shí sè | brilliant colors |
| 五花八门 | wǔ huā bā mén | myriad; all kinds of; all sorts of |
| 五指山 | Wǔ zhǐ shān | Wuzhi or Mount Five Finger, Hainan; Wuzhishan City, Hainan |
| 五营 | Wǔ yíng | Wuying district of Yichun city 伊春市, Heilongjiang |
| 五香 | wǔ xiāng | five spice seasoned; incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty) |
| 五权宪法 | wǔ quán xiàn fǎ | Sun Yat-sen's Five-power constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan; The five courts or 院 are 行政院 Executive yuan, 立法院 Legislative yuan, 司法院 Judicial yuan, 考试院 Examination yuan, 监察院 Control yuan |
| 五洲 | wǔ zhōu | five continents; the world |
| 五刑 | wǔ xíng | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宫, execution 大辟; Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死 |
| 五味 | wǔ wèi | the five flavors, namely: sweet 甜, sour 酸, bitter 苦, spicy hot 辣, salty 咸; all kinds of flavors |
| 五霸 | wǔ bà | The Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period |
| 一五一十 | yī wǔ yī shí | lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail |
| 五方 | wǔ fāng | five directions, namely: east 东, south 南, west 西, north 北 and middle 中 |
| 五台山 | Wǔ tái shān | Mt Wutai in Shanxi, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Manjushri 文殊 |
| 五颜六色 | wǔ yán liù sè | multi-colored; every color under the sun |
| 五体投地 | wǔ tǐ tóu dì | to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb |
| 三番五次 | sān fān wǔ cì | (saying) do over and over again |
| 一百五十多年 | yī bǎi wǔ shí duō nián | more than 150 years |
| 一退六二五 | yī tuì liù èr wǔ | lit. 1 divided by 16 is 0.0625 (abacus rule); fig. to deny responsibility; to pass the buck; also written 一推六二五 |
| 三五成群 | sān wǔ chéng qún | forming groups of three or squads of five (idiom); people stand around in small clumps |
| 三皇五帝 | sān huáng wǔ dì | three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend; the earliest system of Chinese historiography |
| 上下五千年 | shàng xià wǔ qiān nián | popular history of China in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹余章 |
| 二一添作五 | èr yī tiān zuò wǔ | lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning); to share fairly between two parties; to go fifty-fifty |
| 二十五史 | èr shí wǔ shǐ | twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions) |
| 五七 | wǔ qī | memorial activity 35 days after a person's death |
