Five (Number)

by Hla Min

Updated : Dec 2025

Numeral

• Hindu-Arabic numeral : 5
• Roman numeral : V
• ငါး (Five)
• ပဥ္စမ (Fifth)

First group of disciples

ပဥ္စဝဂ္ဂီ

• Kondanna ကောဏ္ဍည
• Baddhiya ဘဒ္ဒိယ
• Vappa ဝပ္ပ
• Mahanama မဟာနာမ်
• Asajji အဿဇိ

Five Khandas / ခန္ဓာ Aggregates

• Rupakkhandha : Material phenomena ရူပက္ခန္ဓာ
• Vedanakkhanda : Feeling ဝေဒနက္ခန္ဓာ
• Sannakkhanda : Perceptionသညာနက္ခန္ဓာ
• Sankharakkhnada : Formations သင်္ခါရက္ခန္ဓာ
• Vinnanakkhandha : Consciousness ဝေညာနက္ခန္ဓာ

Five Precepts

ငါးပါးသီလ

Abstain from

• Killing
• Stealing
• Sexual misconduct
• Lies
• Intoxicants (liquor, “drugs”, …)

Five Senses

အာရုံငါးပါး

• Hearing
• Sight
• Smell
• Taste
• Touch

Five Nikaya / Collection

နိကယ် ငါးရပ်

• Digha Nikaya : “long collection”
• Majjhima Nikaya : “middle-length collection”
• Samyutta Nikaya : “grouped collection” — “thematically linked discourses”
• Anguttara Nikaya : the “further-factored collection” — discourses grouped by content enumerations
• Khuddaka Nikaya : the “collection of little texts”

Miscellaneous

• Five Jhana စျာန် ငါးပါး
• Five fingers on each hand လက်ချောင်း ငါးချောင်း
• Five toes on each foot ခြေချောင်း ငါးချောင်း
• Pentagon five sided polygonပဥ္စဂံ
• May မေ လ 5th month of the Gregorian Calendar