| wǔ | five/5 |
| 五 | five 5 |
| 五一 | 5-1 (May 1st) |
| 五七 | memorial activity 35 days after a person's death |
| 五七一代 | generation of 1957 refers to Mao's anti-rightist purge of 1957 |
| 五七干校 | May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution) abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校 |
| 五七干部学校 | May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution) abbr. 五七幹校|五七干校 |
| 五世 | the fifth (of series of numbered kings) |
| 五业 | The five industries in China. |
| 五业兴旺 | prosperity in farming, forestry, animal husbandry, side-occupations and fishery |
| 五中 | five organs |
| 五五 | 50-50 equal (share, partnership etc) |
| 五人墓碑记 | Five tombstone inscriptions (1628), written by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥 |
| 五代 | 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 |
| 五代十国 | Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979) |
| 五代史 | History of the Five Dynasties, eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 during Northern Song 北宋, 150 scrolls |
| 五价 | quinquevalence; pentavalency; quintavalent; quinquevalency |
| 五价元素 | [Chemistry] a pentad |
| 五价锑的 | antimonic; stibial; stibic; antimonic |
| 五伦 | the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend) |
| 五体投地 | to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb |