Kanji: 六

Words containing that kanji:

• 総領の甚六 - そうりょうのじんろく - First born, least clever
• 六十の手習い - ろくじゅうのてならい - Never too late to learn
• 六甲颪 - ろっこうおろし - cold northerly winter wind from the Rokko Mountains
• 一六銀行 - いちろくぎんこう - pawnshop
• 一六勝負 - いちろくしょうぶ - gambling/speculation
• 六大 - ろくだい - the six elements (earth, water, fire, wind, void, and consciousness)
• 十六羅漢 - じゅうろくらかん - the sixteen arhats
• 六国 - りっこく | ろっこく | りくこく - Six Kingdoms (of China's Warring States period: Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Wei & Zhao)
• 五臓六腑 - ごぞうろっぷ - the internal organs
• 六官 - りくかん | りっかん | ろっかん - six ministries (of Zhou-dynasty China)
• 六十六部 - ろくじゅうろくぶ - Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
• 六卿 - りくけい | りっけい - six ministers (of the six Zhou-dynasty Chinese ministries)
• 六部 - りくぶ - Six Ministries (Sui-dynasty to Qing-dynasty China)
• 六月祓 | 水無月祓 - みなづきばらえ - summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month)
• 六朝 - りくちょう | ろくちょう - Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen) | calligraphic style of the Six Dynasties period
• 三十六計 - さんじゅうろっけい - the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)
• 三面六臂 - さんめんろっぴ - rush of business/versatility/man who can do the work of many
• 四六時中 - しろくじちゅう - around the clock/day and night (Note: 4 x 6 = 24)
• 六調子 - ろくちょうし - six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian)
• 十六 - じゅうろく - 16/sixteen
• 五胡十六国 - ごこじゅうろっこく - Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China from 304 to 439 CE)/Sixteen Kingdoms period
• 十六音符 - じゅうろくおんぷ - 16th note
• 六種 - ろくしゅ - six kinds
• 十六夜 - いざよい - sixteen-day-old moon
• 六義 - りくぎ | ろくぎ - six forms of the Shi Jing (genre: folk song, festal song, hymn; style: narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison) | six forms of waka (allegorical, enumerative, metaphorical, allusive, plain, congratulatory) | six principles of calligraphy | six classes of kanji characters
• 六地蔵 - ろくじぞう - the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms)
• 六道銭 - ろくどうせん - six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu)
• 上方贅六 - かみがたぜいろく - people of the Kyoto area
• 六放海綿 - ろっぽうかいめん - hexactinellid sponge/glass sponge (any sponge of class Hexactinellida)
• 甚六 - じんろく - dunce/blockhead
• 六観音 - ろくかんのん | ろっかんのん - the Six Forms of Avalokitesvara (one for each of the six realms)
• 南都六宗 - なんとろくしゅう - six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)
• 双六 - すごろく - a child's dice game
• 六角柱 - ろっかくちゅう - hexagonal prism
• 六輝 - ろっき - Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is
• 第六感 - だいろっかん - the sixth sense/intuition/hunch
• 六価クロム - ろっかクロム - hexavalent chromium
• 二六時中 - にろくじちゅう - night and day/all the time
• 六つ切り - むつぎり - dividing something into six pieces/something divided into six pieces
• 六体 - りくたい | ろくたい - the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive
• 六国史 - りっこくし - Rikkokushi (the six ancient Japanese historical collections compiled between the Nara and Heian periods)
• 六つ時 - むつどき - (approx.) 6 o'clock (am or pm)
• 八面六臂 - はちめんろっぴ - competent in all fields (lit: 8 faces and 6 arms)/very active in many fields/versatile/all-round
• 四公六民 - しこうろくみん - land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
• 六百 - ろっぴゃく - six hundred
• 三十六計逃げるにしかず | 三十六計逃げるに如かず - さんじゅうろっけいにげるにしかず - the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat
• 忍び六具 - しのびろくぐ - the six tools of the ninja
• 助六 - すけろく - "inari" and "maki" (roll) style sushi
• 才六 | 贅六 - ぜいろく | ぜえろく - Edo term used to debase people from Kansai
• 六角形 - ろっかっけい | ろっかくけい - hexagon
• 六合 - りくごう - the universe/the cosmos
• 六十余州 - ろくじゅうよしゅう - 66-odd provinces of old Japan
• 六書 - りくしょ | りきしょ - the six classes of (kanji) characters | Hexateuch (first six books of the Hebrew Bible)
• 六大州 - ろくだいしゅう - the Six Continents
• 六分儀 - ろくぶんぎ - sextant
• 六法全書 - ろっぽうぜんしょ - the Statute Books
• 才六 | 賽六 | 采六 - さいろく - kid/brat | Edo term used to debase people from Kansai
• 六つ子 - むつご - sextuplets
• 六角堂 - ろっかくどう - hexagonal building
• 六根清浄 - ろっこんしょうじょう - purification of the six roots of perception
• 六十路 - むそじ - age sixty/one's sixties
• 六書 - ろくしょ - Hexateuch
• 六日 | ６日 - むいか | むゆか | むよか - sixth day of the month | six days
• 六辺形 - ろくへんけい - hexagon
• 六本 - ろっぽん - six (long cylindrical things)
• 六花 - りっか - snow
• 六感 - ろっかん - the six senses
• 六三制 - ろくさんせい - six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school)
• 六重唱 - ろくじゅうしょう - vocal sextet
• 六情 - ろくじょう - the six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure and love, and hatred)
• 六百六号 - ろっぴゃくろくごう - # 606/salvarsan
• 六方 - ろっぽう - the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, and down) | hexagonal
• 六連発 - ろくれんぱつ - six-chambered (revolver)
• 六角 - ろっかく - hexagon
• ６月 | 六月 - ろくがつ - June
• 六十四分音符 - ろくじゅうしぶおんぷ - 64th note
• 六重奏 - ろくじゅうそう - instrumental sextet
• 六親 - ろくしん - the six blood relations
• 六部 - ろくぶ - six copies | Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
• 六法 - ろっぽう - six law codes
• 六腑 | 六府 - ろっぷ - the six internal organs (large intestine, small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, san jiao, urinary bladder)
• 上方才六 - かみがたざいろく - Edo term used to debase people from Kansai
• 六月病 - ろくがつびょう - blues experienced by workplace recruits shortly after beginning work
• 六 - ろく | む | むう - six
• 六つ | ６つ - むっつ | むつ - six
• 六号記事 - ろくごうきじ - (space) filler/fill-in (in magazines, newspapers, etc.)
• 表六玉 | 兵六玉 - ひょうろくだま - nincompoop/simpleton
• 六韜三略 - りくとうさんりゃく - two books on the art of war in ancient China/the secrets (essence) of the art of war/secrets of successful life/precepts for living
• 六連星 - ろくれんせい - The Pleiades
• 六道輪廻 - ろくどうりんね - endless circle of transmigration in the six posthumous worlds
• 六親眷属 - ろくしんけんぞく - all of one's relatives by blood and by marriage/one's kith and kin
• 六分 - ろっぷん - six minutes
• 宿六 - やどろく - husband
• 六面体 - ろくめんたい - hexahedron
• 六曜 - ろくよう - Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is
• 四分六 - しぶろく - six to four ratio/sixty-forty
• 六波羅蜜 - ろくはらみつ | ろっぱらみつ - the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment
• 九六 - くんろく - ozeki ranked sumo wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank
• 暮れ六つ - くれむつ - Edo-period term for a time of day, roughly 6 pm
• 南斗六星 - なんとろくせい - Milk Dipper/southern dipper asterism (star pattern) within Sagittarius
• 六尺棒 - ろくしゃくぼう - wooden pole (often oak), 6 shaku long | shoulder pole
• 週六日 - しゅうむいか - six days a week
• 四六判 - しろくばん - duodecimo
• 六十 - ろくじゅう | むそ - sixty
• 繊六本 | 千六本 - せんろっぽん | せろっぽう - julienne (esp. of daikon)/long, thin strips
• 六分儀座 - ろくぶんぎざ - (constellation) Sextant
• 六尺 - ろくしゃく - six feet tall/palanquin bearer
• 明け六つ - あけむつ - the sixth hour of the morning
• 六十四卦 - ろくじゅうしけ - the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)
• 六識 - ろくしき - six consciousnesses
• 六段の調べ - ろくだんのしらべ - rokudan (name of a koto composition)
• 六道 - ろくどう - the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Nakara realm)