伍
wǔWǔ HSK6

five

伍 wǔ frequency
five numeral
the number five, used in banking and finance to prevent fraud

这张支票的面额是伍佰元。

zhè zhāng zhī​piào de miàn'é shì wǔ bǎi yuán.

The face value of this check is five hundred yuan.

squad measure word
a squad of five soldiers in an ancient military unit

在古代军队里，每五名士兵被编为一伍。

zài gǔ​dài jūn​duì lǐ, měi wǔ míng shì​bīng bèi biān​wéi yī wǔ.

In ancient armies, every five soldiers were organized into a 'wu' squad.

associate verb
to associate with or be in the company of

他不屑与那些人为伍。

tā bù​xiè yǔ nà​xiē rén wéi​wǔ.

He disdains to associate with those people.

伍 Wǔ
Wu proper name
the surname Wu

伍先生是我们的新经理。

Wǔ xiān​sheng shì wǒ​men de xīn jīng​lǐ.

Mr. Wu is our new manager.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,472nd most common 74.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,179th most common 73.7 per million appears in 18% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.30 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
12.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+4F0D

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)