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Five precepts
The five precepts (Pancha Sila) are the basic moral code voluntarily undertaken by Buddhist laypeople, administered by monks after the three refuges: no killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, false speech, or intoxicants.
Five prime untranslated region
The 5′ UTR (five prime untranslated region) is the mRNA segment between the cap and start codon that governs translation initiation via Kozak context, uORFs, secondary structure, IRESs, and riboswitches, and is engineered in mRNA therapeutics.
Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (和平共处五项原则) are state-to-state norms proposed by Zhou Enlai in 1953 and affirmed in the 1954 China-India and China-Burma joint statements: sovereignty respect, non-aggression, non-interference, equality and mutual benefit, peaceful coexistence.
Five Punishments (五刑)
Five Punishments (五刑, wu xing) is the generic Chinese term for the five standard penalties of the penal system: early versions centered on tattooing, nose and foot amputation, castration, and death; the Sui-Tang system used beatings, servitude, exile, and death.
Five Races Under One Union (五族共和)
Five Races Under One Union (五族共和, wuzu gonghe) was the Republic of China's founding multiethnic doctrine, unifying Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui, and Tibetan peoples, symbolized by the five-striped flag, later abandoned by Sun Yat-sen for assimilationism and by the PRC for its own ethnic classification.
Five Ranks of Nobility
The Five Ranks of Nobility (五等爵制) was a system of five noble titles, duke through baron, established by Sima Zhao in Cao Wei in 264.
Five Regiments of the Northern Army
The Five Regiments of the Northern Army (北军五校) were regiments that guarded the Eastern Han capital and supplied soldiers for expeditions against the Qiang and steppe peoples.
Five Rings Capital
Five Rings Capital is a quantitative proprietary trading firm in New York, founded by Jason McCarthy in 2003, trading its own capital with no clients.
Five Sacred Mountains of Silla
The Five Sacred Mountains of Silla (Silla Five Peaks) are five mountains designated in the late 600s as state sacrifices, one for each direction of Unified Silla.
Five Seasons Ventures
Five Seasons Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm investing in European food and agritech companies, founded by Niccolò Manzoni and Ivan Farneti in 2018.
Five Seconds
Five Seconds (Cinque secondi) is a 2025 Italian drama by Paolo Virzì, 105 minutes, starring Valerio Mastandrea as lawyer Adriano Sereni and Galatéa Bellugi as Matilde; premiered at the 2025 Rome Film Festival, released in Italy October 30, 2025.
Five Six Seven Eight
Five Six Seven Eight (5678) is a 2022 Tamil teen dance musical drama web series on ZEE5, directed by Vijay, Prasanna JK, and Mrudhula Sridharan, starring Ditya Sagar Bhande and Vivek Jogdande as rival dancers Semba and Vikram; eight episodes released 18 November 2022.
Five Small Capitals of Silla
The Five Small Capitals of Silla (오소경, osogyeong) were five provincial capital districts of Unified Silla, completed in 685 to govern newly annexed former Goguryeo and Baekje territory.
Five solae
The five solae, also called the Five Solas of the Reformation, summarize Reformation theology: Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone, and glory to God alone.
Five stages of grief
Five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's 1969 On Death and Dying, originally about dying patients, later applied to bereavement; now considered descriptively useful but empirically unsupported as a sequence.
Five Star
Five Star (5 Star): English pop-R&B group formed 1983 in Romford by the five Pearson siblings, managed by father Buster Pearson. Known for Silk and Steel (UK No. 1 album, 1986), six UK Top 10 singles, and the 1987 BRIT Award for Best British Group.
Five Star Business Finance
Five Star Business Finance Limited, formerly Five-Star Business Credits Limited, is a Chennai-headquartered non-banking finance company making secured small-business loans to micro-entrepreneurs, listed on Indian exchanges since 2022.
Five Star Movement
Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle, M5S), Italian anti-establishment populist party founded by Beppe Grillo in 2009; known for the Rousseau direct-democracy platform, a 32.7% peak vote, and governments under Giuseppe Conte (2018–2021).
Five Star Music (record label)
Five Star Music is a Nigerian independent record label based in Lagos, founded by the singer Kcee and his brother E-Money, whose 2013 hit 'Limpopo' was its breakthrough.
Five States Recognizing Kingship
Five States Recognizing Kingship (五国相王) was a Warring States period episode in which the rulers of five Chinese states acknowledged one another as kings, with Zhao alone refusing the title.
Five Surnames and Seven Clans
Five Surnames and Seven Clans (五姓七望) were the great Shandong aristocratic lineages of the Tang dynasty: the Cui, Lu, Li, Zheng, and Wang, whose marriage prestige survived imperial bans.
Five Survive
Five Survive is a 2022 standalone YA thriller by Holly Jackson: six friends on a spring break RV trip are trapped by a sniper demanding a secret, over eight real-time hours, a #1 NYT bestseller.
Five themes of geography
Five themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region; a 1984 K-12 teaching framework from NCGE and AAG, later elaborated by the eighteen National Geography Standards.
Five thousand years of Chinese civilization
Five thousand years of Chinese civilization (中华文明五千年) is the claim of continuous Chinese civilization since c. 3000 BCE, officially verified by China's Origin-Tracing Project, supported by Liangzhu and Shimao archaeology, but debated over writing, Xia, and national narrative.
Five Tibetan Rites
Five Tibetan Rites, also called the Five Tibetans or Fountain of Youth: five dynamic yoga-like exercises, up to 21 repetitions each, published by Peter Kelder in The Eye of Revelation (1939); Tibetan origin disputed, evidence limited.
Five Towns
The Five Towns is an informal name for eight villages and hamlets in southwestern Nassau County, Long Island: Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett-area communities, and Inwood, named for five LIRR Far Rockaway line stops.
Five Towns College
Five Towns College (FTC), Dix Hills, New York: private for-profit college founded 1972, accredited by MSCHE, NASM, NAST; 547 students, 11:1 ratio, music/performing arts focus, John Lennon Center, tuition $15,250/semester.
Five tribes
Five Tribes is a 2014 board game by Bruno Cathala, published by Days of Wonder, where players maneuver the meeples of five tribes across the sultanate of Naqala to claim influence.
Five up
Five Up (Five-Up, West Coast dominoes) is a Fives-family domino game where every double is a spinner and plays scoring multiples of five on the open ends earn points; popularized by Dominic C. Armanino's 1959 book, played to 61 points.
Five Vows
The Five Vows (pañca-vrata), the heart of ethics in Jainism, are non-violence, truth, non-stealing, celibacy, and non-possession; monks take them absolutely, laypeople in limited form.