六
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[edit] Etymology
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).
[edit] Han character
六 (radical 12 八+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜金 (YC), four-corner 00800){{#if:八|[[Category:Han characters}}|八02六]]
[edit] References
- KangXi: page 127, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 241, character 9
- Unihan data for U+516D
- http://www.kanjinetworks.com/eng/kanji-dictionary/online-kanji-etymology-dictionary.cfm
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[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Etymology
From Old Chinese *rjuk, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t-ruk (compare Classical Tibetan drug)
[edit] Hanzi
六 (Yale luk6)
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- 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)
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- Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.
[edit] Etymology 1
The ablaut form of mi "three", which it doubles.
[edit] Noun
- six
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[edit] Etymology 2
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- 陸 (used in legal documents)
[edit] Noun
- six
- a name of a hole of a wind instrument
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
六
Eumhun:
- Name (hangeul): 여섯 (revised: yeoseot, McCune-Reischauer: yŏsŏt, Yale: yeses)
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Pronunciation
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audio (file)
[edit] Hanzi
六 (pinyin liù (liu4), Wade-Giles liu4)
[edit] Cardinal number
六 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin liù)
[edit] Middle Chinese
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六 (*liuk)
[edit] Vietnamese
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[edit] Wu
[edit] Pronunciation
Latin Alphabet: luoˋ
Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄌㄨㄛˋ
Categories:
- Han pictograms
- Chinese digits
- Chinese numbers
- Chinese numerals
- Cantonese definitions needed
- Grade 1 kanji
- Japanese kanji
- Japanese nouns
- 1000 Japanese basic words
- Japanese numbers
- Japanese numerals
- Korean hanja
- Korean numbers
- Mandarin cardinal numbers in simplified script
- Mandarin cardinal numbers in traditional script
- Mandarin cardinal numbers
- Chinese hanzi
- Mandarin entries with audio links
- Vietnamese Han tu
- Vietnamese definitions needed
