| term | pronunciation | English |
|---|
| 五 | ご | five |
| 五つ | いつつ | five things |
| 五人 | ごにん | five people |
| 五分の一 | ごぶんのいち | one fifth |
| 五分のニ | にぶんのに | two fifths |
| 十五 | じゅうご | fifteen |
| 五千円 | ごせんえん | 5,000 yen |
| 五年 | ごねん | five years |
| 五才 | ごさい | five years old |
| 四捨五入 | ししゃごにゅう | rounding up (fractions) |
| 五日 | いつか | the 5th day |
| 五月 | ごがつ | May |
| 五反田 | ごたんだ | Gotanda (place name) |
| 五十音 | ごじゅうおん | the Japanese syllabary |
| 五倫の道 | ごりんのみち | the five Confucian filial-piety relationships |
| 五分 | ごぶ | half, 50%, tie, evenness; 5 parts, 5% |
| 五十 | ごじゅう, いそ, い | fifty |
| 五十三次 | ごじゅうさんつぎ | the 53 Toukaidou stages |
| 五大洲 | ごだいしゅう | the Five Continents |
| 五感 | ごかん | the five senses |
| 五斗米 | ごとべい | small salary |
| 五旬節 | ごじゅんせつ | pentecost |
| 五稜堡 | ごりょうほ | five-sided fort; Pentagon |
| 五稜郭 | ごりょうかく | five-sided fortification |
| 五穀 | ごこく | the 5 grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet (awa and kibi)) |
| 五穀豊穣 | ごこくほうじょう | bumper (abundant) crop, huge harvest (of cereals) |
| 五絃 | ごげん | five strings, five-stringed instrument |
| 五線譜 | ごせんふ | (music) score |
| 五臓 | ごぞう | the five viscera (liver, lungs, heart, kidney and spleen) |
| 五臓六腑 | ごぞうろっぷ | the internal organs |
| 五輪 | ごりん | the Olympics |
| 四分五裂 | しぶんごれつ, しぶごれつ | torn asunder, disrupted and disorganized |