六 — kanji meaning “six”
六
six
- Meanings
- six
- On'yomi
- ロク (roku)、リク (riku)
- Kun'yomi
- む、む.つ、むっ.つ、むい
- Name readings
- く、むつ、ろっ、ろつ
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 4
- Newspaper frequency
- #93 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 12
- Chinese reading
- liù, lù — Chinese character page
Words with 六
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 六つ | むっつ muttsu | six |
| 四六時中 | しろくじちゅう shirokujichuu | around the clock; day and night |
| 六道 | ろくどう rokudou | the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Naraka realm) |
| 六花 | りっか rikka | snow |
| 第六感 | だいろっかん dairokkan | the sixth sense; intuition; hunch |
| 六角形 | ろっかっけい rokkakkei | hexagon |
| 双六 | すごろく sugoroku | race game (board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track) |
| 十六 | じゅうろく juuroku | sixteen; 16 |
| 六地蔵 | ろくじぞう rokujizou | the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms) |
| 六法 | ろっぽう roppou | six codes (constitution, civil code, criminal code, commercial code, code of civil procedure, code of criminal procedure) |
| 五臓六腑 | ごぞうろっぷ gozouroppu | the five viscera and the six internal organs |
| 六分儀 | ろくぶんぎ rokubungi | sextant |
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