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六 kanji
six
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ロクリク
Kun readings
むむつむっつむい
Words with 六
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —六分儀座Sextans (constellation); the Sextant
- —六十四卦the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching
- —南斗六星Milk Dipper; southern dipper asterism (star pattern) within Sagittarius
- —六波羅蜜the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment
- —六親眷属all of one's relatives by blood and by marriage; one's kith and kin
- —六号記事fill-in (in magazines, newspapers, etc.); (space) filler
- —上方才六people from Kansai
- —四公六民land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
- —南都六宗six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)
- —六放海綿hexactinellid sponge; glass sponge (any sponge of class Hexactinellida)
- —六十六部Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
- —十六羅漢the sixteen arhats
- —正六面体regular hexahedron; cube
- —六派哲学six schools of classical Indian philosophy
- —十六進法hexadecimal; hexadecimal notation; hex
- —六方晶系hexagonal crystal system
- —六歳臼歯six-year molar
- —六線星形hexagram
- —一天地六die; dice
- —六公四民land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)