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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Alternative forms [edit]

  • (Chinese financial form): or

Etymology [edit]

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).

Han character [edit]

(radical 12 +2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜金 (YC), four-corner 00800, composition)

  1. six

References [edit]

See also [edit]


Cantonese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Chinese *rjuk, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t-ruk (compare Classical Tibetan drug)

Hanzi [edit]

(jyutping luk6, Yale luk6)


Hakka [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ liuk, Guangdong liuk7; luk7 [Bao'an, Dongguan, Hong Kong], Hagfa Pinyim liug5)

References [edit]


Japanese [edit]

Japanese cardinal numbers
 <  5 6 7  > 
    Cardinal : 六

Kanji [edit]

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. six
Readings [edit]
Compounds [edit]

References [edit]

  • New Nelson: 371
  • Halpern: 1965
  • Halpern Learners: 1244
  • Heisig: 6
  • Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 2j2.2
  1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Etymology 1 [edit]

The ablaut form of mi "three", which it doubles.

Noun [edit]

(hiragana , romaji mu)

  1. six
Derived terms [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

Alternative forms [edit]

  • (used in legal documents)

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ro.kuꜜ/, [ɽo̞˨.kɯᵝ˦]

Noun [edit]

(hiragana ろく, romaji roku)

  1. six
  2. a name of a hole of a wind instrument

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]


Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): () (revised: ryuk (yuk), McCune-Reischauer: ryuk (yuk), Yale: lyuk (lyuk))
  • Name (hangeul): 여섯 (revised: yeoseot, McCune-Reischauer: yŏsŏt, Yale: yeses)
  1. six

Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin liù (liu4), Wade-Giles liu4)

Numeral [edit]

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin liù)

  1. six

Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(*liuk)


Min Nan [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ lio̍k, la̍k)

References [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(lục, lúc, lúc, lụt)


Wu [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

Latin Alphabet: luoˋ

Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄌㄨㄛˋ