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HSK
6

five

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

wu3

Meaning


Primary

five

Hint

Though this means the same as 五, this hanzi is used on official documents as it is harder to alter. Kind of like how on checks one always makes a straight line across the rest of the payable amount field so that it cannot be similarly altered.

Mnemonic


[w-] Walter White is in the [3] basement of the [-_] house where he is running a huge meth-making operation. In his employ are 伍 five 亻 Slendermen, each attending to their own vat of meth.

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