五ご味み

noun

five flavors; five tastes

Refers to the five basic tastes: sweet, salty, spicy, sour, and bitter. Used in culinary and traditional contexts.

• 五ご味みとは甘あま味み、塩しお味み、辛から味み、酸さん味み、苦にが味みのことです。

  The five flavors are sweet, salty, spicy, sour, and bitter.

noun

five flavors (Buddhist); five periods of the Buddha's teachings

Buddhist technical term. Literally refers to five stages of milk in ghee-making, figuratively to the five periods of the Buddha's teachings. Rare outside Buddhist contexts.

See also: 五時教

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、五ご味みは釈しゃ迦かの教おしえの五いつつの時じ期きを表あらわすことがある。

  In Buddhism, the five flavors sometimes represent the five periods of the Buddha's teachings.