five
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
注目！今日の会議は十五時、メインルームだ。
Chuumoku! Kyou no kaigi wa juugo-ji, mein ruumu da.
Attention! Today's meeting is at fifteen hundred, in the main room.
お弁当、全部で五つお願いします！
Obentou, zenbu de itsutsu onegaishimasu!
Five bentos in total, please!
会社まで歩いて十五分です。
Kaisha made aruite juugofun desu.
It's a fifteen-minute walk to work.
四百五十、プラス五百、プラス…飲み物二つ…
Yonhyaku gojuu, purasu gohyaku, purasu… nomimono futatsu…
Four hundred fifty, plus five hundred, plus... two drinks...
四百五十、プラス五百、プラス…飲み物二つ…
Yonhyaku gojuu, purasu gohyaku, purasu… nomimono futatsu…
Four hundred fifty, plus five hundred, plus... two drinks...
こちらは四百五十円です。
Kochira wa yonhyaku gojuu-en desu.
This one is four hundred and fifty yen.
だいたい十時半から、十五分間だよ。
Daitai juu-ji han kara, juugofun-kan da yo.
Usually around ten thirty, for fifteen minutes.
時々、同じ話を五回も六回も練習します。
Tokidoki, onaji hanashi o gokai mo rokkai mo renshuu shimasu.
Sometimes, I practice the same story five, six times.
五時間ぐらい寝てます…仕事中に、すごく早く食べます。
Gojikan gurai netemasu... shigotochuu ni, sugoku hayaku tabemasu.
I sleep about five hours... and I eat really fast, in the middle of work.
うーん、少し減らせますか?二百五十グラムくらいで。
Ūn, sukoshi herasemasu ka? Nihyaku gojuu guramu kurai de.
Hmm, could you make it a bit less? Maybe two hundred fifty.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-09-07 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0