First opened Monday, May 27, 2013
五つ
いつつ
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five things
Taken apart
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Written with 五
In a sentence
彼女はケーキを五つに分けた。
She divided the cake into five pieces.
この箱にはリンゴが五つ入っている。
This box contains five apples.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.