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Kanji for Five
The kanji for “five” is 五, read go and written in 4 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
five
Five; the five elements of old Japanese thought.
4 strokes On reading ゴ (go) Kun reading いつ、いつつ (itsu, itsutsu) JLPT N4
Dictionary meanings: five
Readings used for names on Nazuke: go
In Japan it appears in about 758 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
Names written with 五: Domingo 道明玖五 · Rodrigo 路道理五 · Santiago 燦知明五 · Hugo 陽五 · Diego 知英五 · Margo 真五 · Margot 真五
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