六 — six

ろく六 six

Grade 1 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 4 strokes number

U+516D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #93 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #6 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

word

ろく roku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

六(ろく) roku six 六(ろく) 月(がつ) rokugatsu June 六(ろく) 百(ぴゃく) roppyaku six hundred 六(ろく) 十(じゅう) rokujuu sixty

ろっ ro Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

六(ろっ) 本(ぽん) 木(ぎ) roppongi Roppongi (district in Tokyo)

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

六日(むいか) muika sixth day of the month

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亠 lid

はち八 eight #12

Used as component in (1)

めい冥 dark

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#12 八 eight