五 (wǔ) means Five. Below are 24 of the 27 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
现在是十点零 五 分。
Xiànzài shì shí diǎn líng wǔ fēn.
It is now five past ten.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 零
这条路有 五 百米长。
Zhè tiáo lù yǒu wǔbǎi mǐ cháng.
This road is five hundred metres long.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 米
我的手表慢了 五 分钟。
Wǒ de shǒubiǎo màn le wǔ fēnzhōng.
My watch is five minutes slow.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 手表
我们差一刻 五 点见面。
Wǒmen chà yí kè wǔ diǎn jiànmiàn.
We're meeting at a quarter to five.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 刻
往西走 五 百米就到了。
Wǎng xī zǒu wǔbǎi mǐ jiù dào le.
Walk five hundred metres west and you're there.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 西
他的努力是我的 五 倍。
Tā de nǔlì shì wǒ de wǔ bèi.
His effort is five times mine.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 倍
From the graded readers
她手里拿着四 五 个很重的袋子。
tā shǒulǐ názhe sì wǔ gè hěn zhòng / chóng de / dì dàizi.
She was holding four or five heavy bags.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
上个星期 五 是我们的结婚纪念日。
shànggexīngqī wǔ shì wǒmende jiéhūn jìniànrì.
Last Friday was our wedding anniversary.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
等我醒过来的时候，已经 五 点了。
děng wǒ xǐng guòlái de / dì shíhou, yǐjīng wǔ diǎn le / liǎo / liào.
By the time I woke up it was already five.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
我只好坐出租车，花了 五 十块钱。
wǒ zhǐhǎo zuò chūzūchē, huāle wǔshí kuài qián.
I had to take a taxi, which cost fifty yuan.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
我们坐了 五 个小时的车才到那座山。
wǒmen zuò le / liǎo / liào wǔ gè xiǎoshí de / dì chē cái dào nà / nèi zuò shān.
It took five hours by coach to reach the mountain.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Trip With Friends
我的手机没有响，我七点 五 十才醒。
wǒ de(possessive) shǒujī méiyǒu xiǎng, wǒ qī diǎn wǔshí cái xǐng.
My phone didn't go off and I didn't wake until ten to eight.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
她给了我一张纸，上面写着 五 样东西。
tā gěile wǒ yī zhāng zhǐ, shàngmian xiězhe wǔ yàng dōngxī.
She gave me a piece of paper with five things written on it.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
我最后还是出门了，只跑了十 五 分钟。
wǒ zuìhòu háishì chū mén le / liǎo / liào, zhī pǎo le / liǎo / liào shíwǔ fēnzhōng.
In the end I went out anyway, and only ran fifteen minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
From the travel phrasebook
大概三十 五 天到港。
Dàgài sānshíwǔ tiān dào gǎng.
About 35 days to port.
Travel phrasebook · Shipping and customs
不良率是百分之 五 。
Bùliánglǜ shì bǎi fēn zhī wǔ.
The defect rate is five per cent.
Travel phrasebook · Quality problems and claims
From the grammar library
这个房间能坐 五 十个人。
Zhège fángjiān néng zuò wǔshí ge rén.
This room can seat fifty people.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 会 / 能 / 可以 — three ways to say "can"
五 appears in 27 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Questions about 五
How is 五 used in a sentence?
This page shows 27 sentences using 五 (wǔ, "Five"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 五 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 五 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 五 an HSK word?
Yes — 五 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 五?
The dictionary page for 五 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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