陸

See also 陆, and 六

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 阜 + phonetic 坴

Han character

陸 (radical 170 阜+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓中土金土 (NLGCG), four-corner 7421₄)

1. land, continental, Mainland China
2. army
3. six

References

• KangXi: page 1355, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41708
• Dae Jaweon: page 1858, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4134, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9678

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Cantonese

Hanzi

陸 (simplified 陆, Yale luk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

陸 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. land
2. six

Readings

• On: りく (riku), ろく (roku)
• Kun: おか (oka)
• Nanori: くが (kuga), たち (tachi), みち (michi) む (mu), むつ (mutsu)

Synonyms

六

References

JIS: 4E26 Kuten: 4606 Shift JIS: 97A4 EUC-JP: CEA6 Frequency: 736 Nelson: 5005

New Nelson: 6461 Halpern: 543 Halpern Learners: 399 Heisig: 1513 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 2d8.4t

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Noun

陸 (hiragana おか, romaji oka)

1. land; shore

Noun

陸 (hiragana ろく, romaji roku)

1. (law) the number six, 6 (used in legal documents only, otherwise 六)

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Korean

Hanja

陸
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 륙>육 (revised: ryuk>yuk, McCune-Reischauer: ryuk>yuk, Yale: lyuk>yuk)

• Name (hangeul): 뭍()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

陸 (simplified 陆, pinyin lù (lu4), Wade-Giles lu⁴), liu4

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Middle Chinese

Han character

陸 (*liuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

陸 (lục)