6

A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ६). See 6 § Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit for more.

6 (prev 5, next 7)

1. The cardinal number six.
2. A digit in the decimal system of numbering, as well as octal, and hexadecimal.
3. (music, superscript) an indicator that a triad is in first inversion.
4. (phonetics, often superscript) the pitch of a tone that is more extreme than 5; it will be higher or lower depending on local convention.
5. (phonetics, Sinosphere, often superscript) tone number 6, typically identified with light departing yang qu (陽去).

   Synonym: ꜅

The following are equivalent forms as digits:

The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:

• (Arabic digits): 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Other representations of 6:

6 (plural 6s)

1. MI6; the agency or a particular agent.

6

1. (text messaging, slang) r (= sei, second-person singular)

   dv 6? ― where r you?