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伍

伍

伍 U+4F0D, 伍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F0D
← 伌
[U+4F0C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 伎 →
[U+4F0E]
See also: 五

Translingual

Han character

伍 (radical 9 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人一木一 (OMDM), four-corner 21217, composition ⿰亻五)

  1. five (used normally on official documents or checks to avoid forgery)
  2. troops
  3. Wu, a common Chinese Mandarin surname
  4. Eng or Ng, a common Chinese Cantonese surname

References

  • KangXi: page 95, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 435
  • Dae Jaweon: page 202, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 118, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+4F0D

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 伍 – see 五 (“five”).
(This character, 伍, is a variant form of 五.)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
 伍

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 伍
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 疑古切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋuoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋuoX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋɔX/
Li
Rong		 /ŋoX/
Wang
Li		 /ŋuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 伍
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nguX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.ŋˤaʔ/
English group of five

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 伍
Reading # 1/1
No. 13148
Phonetic
component		 五
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 五
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋaːʔ/

Noun

伍

  1. troop (of five soldiers)
  2. (figuratively) military
  3. ally, company

Proper noun

伍

  1. A surname​.
Descendants
  • (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Go, Wu

Japanese

Kanji

伍

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. five

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

伍 • ‎(o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune-Reischauer o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

伍 (ngũ)

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