六

六 (Kangxi radical 12, 八+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜金 (YC), four-corner 0080₀, composition ⿱亠八)

• 𰃞

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 127, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1453
• Dae Jaweon: page 280, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 241, character 9
• Unihan data for U+516D
• Unihan data for U+F9D1

Historical forms of the character 六
Shang		Western Zhou	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script j29782 j29783 j29784 j29785 j29786 j29787 j29788 j29789 j29790 j29791 j29792 j29793 j29794 j29795 j29796 j29797 j29798 j29799 j29800 j29801 j29802 j29803 j29804 j29805 j29806 j29807 j29808 j29809 j29810 j29811 Bronze inscriptions b19884 b19885 b19886 b19887 b19888 b19889 b19890 b19891 b19892 b19893 b19894 b19895 b19896 b19897 b19898 b19899 b19900 b19901 b19902 b19903 b19904 b19905 b19906 b19907 b19908 Small seal script s10921 Transcribed ancient scripts L37442 L37443 L37444 L25250 L25251 L25252 L25253
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Pictogram (象形) – perhaps a shed. Originally using the similar-sounding word 廬 (OC *ra, “shed, cabin”) to represent the concept “six” (Liu Xinglong). Alternatively, it may be an ancient counting symbol.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k-ruk (“six”).

六

1. six

   六城  ―  liù chéng  ―  Six Cities (a literal translation of Altishahr, an ancient name for the region Xinjiang/East Turkestan)

2. (printing) small text; The size of type between 小五 (xiǎowǔ, “little 5”) and 小六 (xiǎoliù, “little 6”), standardized as 7½ point.
3. (dialectal) proficient
4. (neologism, Internet slang) awesome; excellent; remarkable
5. a surname. (pronounced Lù)
6. name of an ancient state (pronounced Lù), also found in placenames (e.g., 六安 (Lù'ān) Lu'an, Anhui, China)

Others:

• → Proto-Tai: *krokᴰ (“six”)
  • Northern Tai
    • Bouyei: rogt
    • Zhuang: roek, loeg
  • Central Tai
    • Tày: hốc
    • Nùng: róc
    • Nong Zhuang: choak
  • Proto-Southwestern Tai: *xrokᴰ¹ˢ
    • Thai: หก (hòk)
    • Northern Thai: ᩉᩫ᩠ᨠ
    • Lao: ຫົກ (hok)
    • Lü: ᦷᦠᧅ (ḣok)
    • Tai Dam: ꪶꪬꪀ
    • Shan: ႁူၵ်း (húuk)
    • Tai Nüa: ᥞᥨᥐᥱ (hǒk)
    • Aiton: ꩭုက် (huk)
    • Phake: ꩭုက် (huk)
    • Ahom: 𑜍𑜤𑜀𑜫 (ruk)

六

1. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note sol (5).
2. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note sol (5).

• “六”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00286
• “Entry #587”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. six

• Go-on: ろく (roku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: りく (riku)
• Tō-on: りゅう (ryū)^{←りう (riu, historical)}
• Kun: む (mu, 六, Jōyō); むい (mui, 六, Jōyō ^†); むつ (mutsu, 六つ, Jōyō); むっつ (mu'tsu, 六つ, Jōyō)
• Nanori: く (ku); むつ (mutsu)

The ablaut form of 三 (mi, “three”), which it doubles. From Old Japanese 六 (mu), from Proto-Japonic *mu.

• (Tokyo) む​ [múꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ᵝ]

六(む) • (mu) 

1. six

• 六(むっ)つ (muttsu)

From Middle Chinese 六 (MC ljuwk). Compare modern Cantonese reading luk6.

• (Tokyo) ろく​ [ròkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɾo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

六(ろく) • (roku) 

1. six
2. the sixth hole of a wind instrument

From Middle Chinese 六 (MC ljuwk).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɾjuk̚] ~ [juk̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [륙/육]

Wikisource 六 (eumhun 여섯 륙 (yeoseot ryuk), South Korea 여섯 육 (yeoseot yuk))

1. Hanja form^? of 륙/육 (“six”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

六: Hán Việt readings: lục[1][2][3], lúc (力(lực)竹(trúc)切(thiết))[1]
六: Nôm readings: lúc[1][2][3][4], lục[1][2][3], lóc[1], trọc[1], lộc[3], lụt[3]

1. Chữ Hán form of lục (“six”).