六

Stroke order

Stroke order

§Alternative formsEdit

• (Chinese financial form): 陸 or 陆

§EtymologyEdit

Pictogram (象形) – a tall mound. This evolved into six because a high mound could be seen to go beyond the normal, just as six is a number that goes beyond the natural counting unit (five, the number of fingers on a hand).

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

§Han characterEdit

六 (radical 12 八+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜金 (YC), four-corner 0080₀, composition ⿱亠八)

§ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 127, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 241, character 9
• Unihan data for U+516D

§See alsoEdit

• (Chinese written numbers): 零 or 〇， 一， 二， 三， 四， 五， 六， 七， 八， 九， 十， 百， 千， 萬／万， 億／亿

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simp. and trad.		六

§EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-(k-)ruk.

§PronunciationEdit

Middle Chinese pronunciation (六, reconstructed)
Character (六), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 屋 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 力竹切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/lɨuk̚/	/li̯uk̚/	/liuk̚/	/liuk̚/	/luwk̚/	/lĭuk̚/	/liuk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (六, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
六								liù								‹ ljuwk ›								/*k.ruk/								six
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
六					8341					六					覺					1					六					/*ruɡ/

§NumeralEdit

六

1. six

§See alsoEdit

• (Chinese written numbers): 零 or 〇， 一， 二， 三， 四， 五， 六， 七， 八， 九， 十， 百， 千， 萬／万， 億／亿

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Japanese cardinal numbers

5	6	7
Cardinal : 六

§KanjiEdit

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. six

§ReadingsEdit

• On: ろく (roku) りく (riku)
• Kun: む (mu), むつ (六つ, mutsu), むっつ (六つ, muttsu), むい (mui)
• Nanori: く (ku), むつ (mutsu), ろつ (rotsu)

§CompoundsEdit

§ReferencesEdit

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

§Etymology 1Edit

The ablaut form of mi "three", which it doubles.

§NounEdit

六 (hiragana む, romaji mu)

1. six

§Derived termsEdit

• 六つ

§Etymology 2Edit

§Alternative formsEdit

• 陸 (used in legal documents)

§PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ro.kuꜜ/, [ɽo̞˨.kɯᵝ˦]

§NounEdit

六 (hiragana ろく, romaji roku)

1. six
2. a name of a hole of a wind instrument

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§HanjaEdit

六 (ryuk(yuk))
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 륙(육) (revised: ryuk (yuk), McCune-Reischauer: ryuk (yuk), Yale: lyuk (^lyuk))

• Name (hangeul): 여섯 (revised: yeoseot, McCune-Reischauer: yŏsŏt, Yale: yeses)

1. six

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§Han characterEdit

六 (lục, lúc, lúc, lụt)

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