오

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five (Sino-Korean)

🖐️ O = five: say oh! and hold up one open hand, five fingers

오 comes from the hanja 五, the same character behind Mandarin wǔ and Japanese go. It is the Sino-Korean five, used for dates, money, minutes and phone numbers. The native Korean five is 다섯.

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