Big five (disambiguation) - Definition

Big five can mean:

• Big Five (Hawaii), an oligarchy of five corporations that ruled over Hawaii
• Big5, a character encoding method of unknown origin for Traditional Chinese characters
• Big Five can also refer to the five biggest commercial banks in Canada: Royal Bank of Canada, CIBC, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Montreal and Bank of Nova Scotia. See also Big Five banks and Big Six banks.
• The Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia, formed by the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, St. Joseph's University, Villanova University, and La Salle University.
• Big Five can refer to the five major media giants which dominate the global music market: Universal Music Group, Sony, EMI, Warner Brothers and BMG. Since the merger of Sony and BMG, these are now the Big Four.
• Big Five is a colloquial term for the members of the defacto Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China pre-1956.
• Big Five (African Wildlife), a term coined by the hunting fraternity in Africa to refer to the five most dangerous animals to hunt i.e. Rhinoceros, Leopard, Cape Buffalo, Elephant and Lion.
• The big five personality constructs (Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability)

See also

• Big Two
• Little Three
• Big Three
• Big Four
• Big Six