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)

1. six

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): 〇  一  二  三  四  五  六  七  八  九  十

EtymologyEdit

From Old Chinese *rjuk, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t-ruk (compare Classical Tibetan drug)

HanziEdit

六 (Jyutping luk6, Yale luk6)

HanziEdit

六 (POJ liuk, Guangdong liuk⁷; luk⁷ [Bao'an, Dongguan, Hong Kong], Hagfa Pinyim liug5)

ReferencesEdit

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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), ろっ (rot), 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

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

PronunciationEdit

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HanziEdit

六 (Pinyin liù (liu4), Wade-Giles liu⁴)

NumeralEdit

六 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin liù)

1. six

Han characterEdit

六 (*liuk)

HanziEdit

六 (TLPA lio̍k (liok⁸), la̍k (lak⁸))

ReferencesEdit

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

Han characterEdit

六 (lục, lúc, lúc, lụt)

HanziEdit

Latin Alphabet: luoˋ Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄌㄨㄛˋ 六