Kanji
六
kanji character
six
六 kanji-六 six
六
Meaning
six
Readings
Kun'yomi
- む ずかしい difficult
- む つご sextuplets
- む つどき (approx.) six o'clock (am or pm, old time system)
- むつ かしい difficult
- むつ おびあるまじろ six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)
- むっつ
- むい か 6th day of the month
- しゅう むい か six days a week
- むい かせんそう Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967)
On'yomi
- ろく じゅう sixty
- ろく がつ June
- じゅう ろく sixteen
- りく ごう the universe
- りく しょ the six classes of Chinese characters
- りく たい the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive
Practice Writing
Stroke: 1/4
Component Analysis
Common Words
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一 六 銀 行 pawnshop -
一 六 勝 負 gambling on whether the throw of a die will produce a "one" or a "six", gambling with dice, gambling... -
五 臓 六 腑 the five viscera and the six internal organs, inside one's body, in one's heart -
三 十 六 計 the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat) -
三 面 六 臂 rush of business, versatility, man who can do the work of many -
四 六 時 中 around the clock, day and night -
十 六 sixteen, 16 -
一 六 (rolling) a 1 and a 6 (with two dice), dice gambling, (armed) robbery... -
十 六 夜 sixteen-day-old moon -
上 方 贅 六 people from Kansai -
甚 六 dunce, blockhead -
双 六 race game (board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track), ban-sugoroku, sugoroku... -
雙 六 race game (board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track), ban-sugoroku, sugoroku... -
第 六 感 the sixth sense, intuition, hunch -
六 借 しいdifficult, hard, troublesome... -
六 ヶ敷 いdifficult, hard, troublesome... -
六 かしいdifficult, hard, troublesome... -
二 六 時 中 night and day, all the time -
八 面 六 臂 competent in all fields, jack of all trades, very active in many fields... -
六 つ子 sextuplets -
六 花 snow -
六 角 hexagon -
六 角 形 hexagon -
六 角 堂 hexagonal building -
六 感 the six senses -
六 月 June, sixth month of the lunar calendar -
六 合 the universe, the cosmos -
六 根 清 浄 purification of the six roots of perception -
六 三 制 six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school) -
六 十 四 分 音 符 64th note, hemidemisemiquaver, semidemisemiquaver