五谷

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five crops, e.g. millet 粟[su4], soya bean 豆[dou4], sesame 麻[ma2], barley 麦[mai4], rice 稻[dao4] or other variants; all crops; all grains; oats, peas, beans and barley

五常

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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

五帝

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Five Emperors from legendary times; possibly tribal leaders before the historiographers got working on them; usually taken to be Yellow Emperor 黄帝 and four of his sons Zhuan Xu 颛顼, Di Ku 帝喾, Tang Yao 唐尧, Yu Shun 虞舜

五色

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multi-colored; the rainbow; garish

五

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five; 5