Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

93 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 4

Meaning: six

Kunyomi: む.つ むっ.つ むい

Onyomi: ロク リク

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: はち

Meaning: eight

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

時(ろくじ)   6 o'clock

才(ろくさい)   6 years old

番目(ろくばんめ)   6th

月(ろくがつ)   June

本(ろっぽん)   6 (long cylindrical objects)

百(ろっぴゃく)   600

つ(むっつ)   6 (pieces)

日(むいか)   6 days, 6th of the month

Onyomi Examples

ロク six, 6

6月 ロクガツ June, sixth month of the lunar calendar

ジュウロク 16, sixteen

サイロク kid, brat, person from Kansai

リクカン six ministries (of Zhou-dynasty China)

ロッキ yin, yang, wind, rain, darkness, light, cold, heat, dryness, dampness, wind, fire, six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, hate)

Kunyomi Examples

ろく six, 6

難しい むずかしい difficult, hard, troublesome, complicated, serious (disease, problem, etc.), impossible, unfeasible, fussy, particular, fastidious, hard to please, displeased, gloomy, glum, sullen, serious (look), dirty, unclean, filthy, detestable, unpleasant, uncomfortable, creepy, spooky

むっつ six, six years of age, six o'clock (old time system)

難しい むずかしい difficult, hard, troublesome, complicated, serious (disease, problem, etc.), impossible, unfeasible, fussy, particular, fastidious, hard to please, displeased, gloomy, glum, sullen, serious (look), dirty, unclean, filthy, detestable, unpleasant, uncomfortable, creepy, spooky

むっつ six, six years of age, six o'clock (old time system)

6日 むいか 6th day of the month, six days

日間戦争 むいかかんせんそう Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967), Third Arab-Israeli War