六 — Chinese character
六
liù
six
- Pinyin
- liù
- Radical
- 12 ⼋ (Eight)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 亠 八
- Japanese
- 六 as a kanji
Common words with 六
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 十六 | shí liù | sixteen; 16 |
| 六十 | liù shí | sixty; 60 |
| 六合 | liù hé | the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down); the whole country |
| 六合彩 | liù hé cǎi | Mark Six (Hong Kong lotto game) |
| 六角 | liù jiǎo | hexagon |
| 五颜六色 (五顏六色) | wǔ yán liù sè | multicolored; every color under the sun |
| 第六感 | dì liù gǎn | sixth sense (i.e. intuition, premonition, telepathy etc) |
| 六家 | liù jiā | Six schools of pre-Han philosophy, as analyzed by 司马谈 (Sī mǎ Tán) (儒家 (Rú jiā), 道家 (Dào jiā), 阴阳 (yīn yáng), 法家 (Fǎ jiā), 名家 (Míng jiā), and 墨家 (Mò jiā)) |
| 六月份 | liù yuè fèn | June |
| 六方 | liù fāng | hexagonal |
| 六十年代 | liù shí nián dài | the sixties; the 1960s |
| 六旬 | liù xún | 60 years; one's sixties; 60 days |
English words written with 六
六 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 10 · Art of War 4 · Mencius 6 · Zhuangzi 46
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 18
- Analects 2.4
- Analects 8.6
- Analects 11.25
- Analects 17.8
- Art of War 2.13–14
- Art of War 10.13
- Art of War 10.14
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.