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VI

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U+2165, Ⅵ
ROMAN NUMERAL SIX

[U+2164]
Number Forms
[U+2166]

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Etymology 1

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Number

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VI

  1. A Roman numeral representing six (6).
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
      The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
    • 2025 March 10, Karina Tsui and Elizabeth Wolfe, “Department of Education investigating 60 colleges and universities over antisemitism claims”, in CNN[1] (in English):
      The Office for Civil Rights said that it sent letters under its authority to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bans any institution receiving federal funds from discriminating based on race, color, and national origin.
  2. (especially in the names of aristocracy) the sixth.
    • 2018 October 26, Chris Fitch, “Reintroduction of military conscription in Morocco”, in Geographical[2] (in English), archived from the original on 2021-02-27:
      ‘We cannot let our education system continue to produce unemployed people, especially in certain branches of study,’ announced King Mohammed VI, ‘where graduates – as everyone knows – find it extremely hard to access the job market.’
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Etymology 2

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Symbol

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VI

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the United States Virgin Islands.
    Synonym: VIR (alpha-3)

Etymology 3

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VI

  1. (music) major submediant triad

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English

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Noun

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VI (plural VIs)

  1. Initialism of verb, intransitive.
  2. Initialism of viscosity index.

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VI

  1. Abbreviation of Virgin Islands.
  2. VI (U.S. Virgin Islands)
  3. (UK) Abbreviation of Victoria Imperatrix.; the royal cypher of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, queen regnant and empress of the British Empire, Empire of India

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Virgin Islands

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