五

five / 5

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

variant of 乙[zhe2]

work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

to rule / to reign over

lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail

several / three or five

in groups of three or four (idiom)

over and over again (idiom)

(Tw) from time to time / frequently

1 divided by 16 is 0.0625 (abacus rule) / (fig.) to deny responsibility; to pass the buck

Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆

to order again and again (idiom)

see 一推六二五[yi1 tui1 liu4 er4 wu3]

three, set five remove two (abacus rule) / efficiently / quickly and easily