六 · six

JLPT N5 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

六 means six. It is a JLPT N5 kanji written in 4 strokes, read ろく or む. It is built from 2 parts: 亠 (kettle lid radical (no. 8)), 八 (eight, eight radical (no. 12)). It appears in 六日 (six days) and 六つ (six things).

筆順 · Stroke order

六 is written in 4 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.

解字 · What it is made of

六 breaks into 2 parts.

• 亠 semantic kettle lid radical (no. 8) · top carries the meaning
• 八 semantic eight, eight radical (no. 12) · bottom carries the meaning

Words that use 六

Word	Reading	Meaning
六	ろく	six
六日	むいか	six days
六つ	むっつ	six things

Built from the same parts

These use 亠 or 八 too. The part keeps its job from one character to the next, which is what makes it worth learning once.

• 主master
• 夜night
• 京capital
• 文sentence

Practise 六

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