六
2 readings · tap one to hear it
six; 6
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 八 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 六
- Common rank
- #668
- Unicode
- U+516D
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Formation & memory
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How 六 is formed
How to remember it
six · Heisig RSH #6
top hat + animal legs
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 六
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 平行六面体 | (math.) parallelepiped | |
| 六分之一 | one sixth | |
| 六神无主 | out of one's wits (idiom); distracted; stunned | |
| 人五人六 | (idiom) to make a show of being decent and proper; to display phony or hypocritical behavi… | |
| 六安市 | Lu'an, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省[An1 hui1 Sheng3] | |
| 六合区 | Luhe, a district of Nanjing City 南京市[Nan2 jing1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 六盘水市 | Liupanshui, prefecture-level city in Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 Sheng3] | |
| 六面体 | hexahedron | |
| 六朝四大家 | Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties, namely: Cao Buxing 曹不興|曹不兴[Cao2 Bu4 xing1], Gu K… | |
| 三十六计，走为上计 | see 三十六計，走為上策|三十六计，走为上策[san1 shi2 liu4 ji4 , zou3 wei2 shang4 ce4] | |
| 六公主 | nickname for CCTV-6 (China Movie Channel) | |
| 六合八法 | Liuhe Bafa - "Six Harmonies, Eight Methods" - Martial Art | |
| 三百六十行 | all walks of life (idiom); every trade | |
| 六二五事变 | Korean War (dating from North Korean invasion on 25th Jun 1950) | |
| 山本五十六 | YAMAMOTO Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral | |
| 三十六字母 | thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory | |
| 六朝时代 | the Six Dynasties period (222-589) between Han and Tang | |
| 一推六二五 | 1 divided by 16 is 0.0625 (abacus rule); (fig.) to deny responsibility; to pass the buck | |
| 六角星 | six-pointed star; hexagram | |
| 六盘山 | Liupan Mountains, mountain range in northern China |