六

六 (Kangxi radical 12, 八+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜金 (YC), four-corner 0080₀, composition ⿱亠八)

• 𰃞

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 127, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1453
• Dae Jaweon: page 280, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 241, character 9
• Unihan data for U+516D

• Unihan data for U+F9D1

Pictogram (象形) – perhaps a shed. Originally using the similar-sounding word 廬 (OC *ra, “shed, cabin”) to represent the concept “six” (Liu Xinglong). Alternatively, it may be an ancient counting symbol.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k-ruk (“six”).

六

1. six

   六城  ―  liù chéng  ―  Six Cities (a literal translation of Altishahr, an ancient name for the region Xinjiang/East Turkestan)

2. (printing) small text; The size of type between 小五 (xiǎowǔ, “little 5”) and 小六 (xiǎoliù, “little 6”), standardized as 7½ point.
3. (dialectal) proficient
4. (neologism, Internet slang) awesome; excellent; remarkable
5. a surname (pronounced Lù)
6. name of an ancient state (pronounced Lù), also found in placenames (e.g., 六安 (Lù'ān) Lu'an, Anhui, China)

In Min Nan numbers, the vernacular (白) pronunciation is the more common pronunciation, while the literary (文) reading is used for reading numbers out loud, such as in phone numbers. Please note that this usage is similar to the usage of the variant 幺 for the numeral 一 in Mandarin.

Others:

• → Proto-Tai: *krokᴰ (“six”)
  • Northern Tai
    • Bouyei: rogt
    • Tai Do: hốc
    • Zhuang: roek, loeg
  • Central Tai
    • Tày: hốc
    • Nùng: róc
    • Nong Zhuang: choak
  • Proto-Southwestern Tai: *xrokᴰ¹ˢ
    • Thai: หก (hòk)
    • Northern Thai: ᩉᩫ᩠ᨠ
    • Lao: ຫົກ (hok)
    • Lü: ᦷᦠᧅ (ḣok)
    • Tai Dam: ꪶꪬꪀ
    • Shan: ႁူၵ်း (húuk)
    • Tai Nüa: ᥞᥨᥐᥱ (hǒk)
    • Aiton: ꩭုက် (huk)
    • Phake: ꩭုက် (huk)
    • Ahom: 𑜍𑜤𑜀𑜫 (ruk)

六

1. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note sol (5).
2. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note sol (5).

• “六”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00286
• “六”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

1. six

• Go-on: ろく (roku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: りく (riku)
• Tō-on: りゅう (ryū)^{←りう (riu, historical)}
• Kun: む (mu, 六, Jōyō)、むい (mui, 六, Jōyō ^†)、むつ (mutsu, 六つ, Jōyō)、むっつ (muttsu, 六つ, Jōyō)
• Nanori: く (ku)、むつ (mutsu)

The ablaut form of 三 (mi, “three”), which it doubles. From Old Japanese 六 (mu), from Proto-Japonic *mu.

• (Tokyo) む [múꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [mɯ̟]

六(む) • (mu) 

1. six

• 六(むっ)つ (muttsu)

From Middle Chinese 六 (MC ljuwk). Compare modern Cantonese 六 (luk⁶), literary Hokkien 六 (lio̍k).

• (Tokyo) ろく [ròkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɾo̞kɯ̟]

• (Tokyo) Note: Generally, words that are Odaka become flat with の (の-particle deaccenting). However, the word 六 does not become deaccented with の and is still pronounced as:

• ろくの
• Category:Japanese terms with Odaka pitch accent not deaccented before の (Tōkyō)

六(ろく) • (roku) 

1. six
2. the sixth hole of a wind instrument

From Middle Chinese 六 (MC ljuwk).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɾjuk̚] ~ [juk̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [륙/육]

Wikisource

六 (eumhun 여섯 륙 (yeoseot ryuk), word-initial (South Korea) 여섯 육 (yeoseot yuk))

1. hanja form^? of 륙/육 (“six”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

六: Hán Việt readings: lục^[1][2][3], lúc (力(lực)竹(trúc)切(thiết))^[1]
六: Nôm readings: lúc^[1][2][3][4], lục^[1][2][3], lóc^[1], trọc^[1], lộc^[3], lụt^[3]

1. chữ Hán form of lục (“six”)