ご
Meanings
Numeric
1. five; 5
伍 is used in legal documents
There are five in total.
Pitch accent
ご
Used in vocabulary (157 in total)
in a great quantity; plentifully; greatly
Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China in 300-500 CE: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)
half; 50%; 5 parts; 5%; equality; equal footing
Examples (126 in total)
Is it fifth period?
The square of 5 is 25.
She is five years old.
There are five in total.
Do you have five dollars?
I speak five languages.
My family consists of five people.
Do you have a table for five?
My seat is number five.
It is made up of five parts in all.
Grades are given on a five-level scale.
Take the elevator to the fifth floor.
There were only five people present altogether.
Five emails had arrived.
I'm still only 5-kyu at shogi.
The sum of three and five is eight.
It is almost the fifth station.
The river is five feet deep.
I won fifth prize in the lottery.
I got five years in prison.
Five years have gone by since my father died.
She has five older brothers.
We were married five years ago today.
If possible, I would like about five of them.
However, the game ended in the fifth inning.
I've been using this smartphone for five years.
Let's give five points apiece.
My room is on the fifth floor.
The answer is written on page five.
This book consists of five chapters.
He has as many as five brothers.
My office is on the fifth floor.
The island is about five kilometers in circumference.
Ten divided by two is five.
Five fireworks went up into the night sky.
The committee is composed of five students.
A year is three hundred and sixty-five days, right?
It is five thousand five hundred yen.
Judging from the footsteps, there are five or six people.
We walked about five miles.
I want to go back five seconds and do it over!
Looking closely, there are five sets of futons.
A boy of about fourteen or fifteen was standing there.
Finally, this series has reached its fifth volume.
Press the fifth store from the top.
This year I had interviews at five companies.
The distance between the two was less than five meters.
I bought some five-centimeter-square lumber.
My eldest daughter has turned five.
He asked $5 for it.
It is because you are a fifth-year student.
This man has been blind for five years at least.
This year's league is a battle among the top five.
I go to the gym five times a week.
The forty-five-minute class was over in a flash.
In this industry, the big five share the market.
All five of them are seriously amazing.
The team is unbeaten since the season opener, with five straight wins.
I have known her for five years.
Today's catch was five horse mackerel.
I ate just five grapes.
Our family consists of five members.
My older brother ran the fifth leg of the ekiden relay.
Mary paid five dollars for her lunch.
It's been five years since my father died.
It took me five hours to finish the work.
I caught five fish yesterday.
His uncle died five years ago.
There was an accident on Fifth Avenue yesterday.
I recall that it took approximately five hours to finish.
We have five English classes a week.
Two of the five were absent with colds.
But it's been a long time since the five of us got together like this, hasn't it?
I'd say it's five percent at most, wouldn't you?
Last week five students were absent from class.
My grandfather retired from active work at sixty-five.
With this number, we can expect five thousand.
Even with five people, there is simply not enough time.
The previous five times were either failures or mediocre.
By the way, the number of times I fell on the way back was five.
Tonight's dinner has as many as five side dishes.
The population has doubled in the last five years.
I think five sen is fine, though.
New York's Fifth Avenue is comparable to Ginza.
The costs came to 50,000 yen in all.
This bridge was completed in the fifth year of Heisei.
I have heard nothing from him for five years.
This temple has five Buddhist statues.
It took me five hours to make this kennel.
The judge sentenced him to a jail term of five years.
There were about five men and women in the room.
And the five of them appeared from the wings onto the stage.
I have been wearing this overcoat for more than five years.
I sold the piano I no longer used for 50,000 yen.
I owe him 50,000 yen.
Then, in an instant, there were five violent collisions.
He has written five books so far.
More importantly, was it okay to push everything onto a five-year-old child?
The five of us came to a stop in the middle of the street.
I've been a fan of this band for five years.
You register five players as substitute personnel.
What was inside were five pieces of clothing of different shapes and colors.
He beat five opponents in a row in the judo match.
I was looking forward to the day when I could see him after five years' separation.
The village paid five koku of rice as its annual tax.
He is far better off than he was five years ago.
It took me five hours to drive from here to Tokyo.
There were no fewer than five women standing outside, claiming to be his wife.
It is something that could only be accomplished because there were these five people, with not a single one missing.
Next time, we finally reach the fifth volume and plunge into a new chapter.
Five more illustrations to go. I hope I can draw good ones.
Then, each person presents, and points are assigned on a five-point scale.
I first met him when I was in fifth grade.
We will have been studying English for five years next February.
As of April 1, the population is about fifty thousand.
He was set free after doing five years in prison.
That is a large force with 5,000 soldiers.
The Great Wall of China is more than 5,500 miles long.
I could see a total of five people walking toward the outside of the town.
There, the names of the five opponents were written in the order of their turns.
As announced in advance, this match is a five-on-five team battle.
More than five years have passed since I came to live in this house.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Here are about five thousand yen worth of points I have saved up.
Entering the castle grounds for the first time in nearly five years, I am enveloped by a strange sense of tension.
Zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.