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Pentad ('group of 5') or pentade may refer to: Pentad (chord), a five-note chord; Pentad (computing), or pentade, a 5-bit group; a division of the solar term; Dramatistic pentad, Kenneth Burke's method of analyzing motivation; Medical pentad, a group of five signs or symptoms which characterise a specific medical condition; a tuple of length 5
Each pentad consists of five, rarely six, days, and are mostly named after phenological (biological or botanical) phenomena corresponding to the pentad. Solar terms originated in China, then spread to Korea, Vietnam, and Japan, countries in the East Asian cultural sphere.
A medical triad is a group of three signs or symptoms, the result of injury to three organs, which characterise a specific medical condition. The appearance of all three signs conjoined together in another patient, points to that the patient has the same medical condition, or diagnosis.
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In Yushui each pentad includes : in China, first pentad / 獺祭魚 : 'otters make offerings of fish'. As fish begin to swim upstream, they are hunted by otters, which are believed to offer the fish to heaven ; second pentad / 鴻雁來 : 'the wild geese arrive'. Wild geese begin to make their northward migration, following the onset of spring ;
Yuè Lìng Qī Shí Èr Hòu Jí Jiě (月令七十二候集解) explains the name of this pentad: It is not called the 'winter ice meets the spring wind and melts in the spring wind' thaw, but the 'east wind' thaw, because Lü Shi Chun Qiu said that the east is associated with wood, and wood generates fire, [ 2 ] so the air is warm and causes ...
Last pentad: 虹始見/虹始见, 'Rainbows begin to appear'. Japan. First pentad: 玄鳥至 (tsubame itaru), 'The swallow flies back from the south'. Second pentad: 鴻雁北 (kōgan kitae kaeru), 'The goose migrates to the north'. Last pentad: 虹始見 (niji hajimete arawaru), 'Rainbows begin to appear in the sky after shower'.
They are the first pentad (初候), the second pentad (次候), and the third pentad (末候): Pentads in Jingzhe are China. First pentad: traditional Chinese: 桃始華; simplified Chinese: 桃始华 (pīnyīn: Táo shǐ huá), 'The peaches begin to blossom'.