五
wǔ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The number five, in counting and in figures. 五个人 is 'five people', 五块钱 'five yuan', 五月 May, 星期五 Friday. Mind the order next to 十 'ten': 十五 is fifteen, but 五十 is fifty.
Số năm, dùng khi đếm và khi đọc các con số. 五个人 là năm người, 五块钱 là năm tệ, 五月 là tháng năm, 星期五 là thứ sáu. Chú ý trật tự khi ghép với 十 (mười): 十五 là mười lăm, còn 五十 là năm mươi.
NumeralRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “五” mean?
The number five, in counting and in figures. 五个人 is 'five people', 五块钱 'five yuan', 五月 May, 星期五 Friday. Mind the order next to 十 'ten': 十五 is fifteen, but 五十 is fifty.
Is “五” formal or informal?
五 is generally neutral.