六 (luk6 | liu4) : six

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六

luk6

liu4

six

陸 is a variant of 六 in "full form", used in certain formal settings such as when dealing with currency.

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Stroke count: 4

Level: 1

Radical: 八 (#12)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

六

This word has been viewed 1 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 15th Oct 2014 05:11

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星期六 sing1 kei4 luk6 xing1 qi1 liu4 (PRC), xing1 qi2 liu4 (Taiwan) = Saturday

六月 luk6 jyut6 liu4 yue4 = June

六十 luk6 sap6 liu4 shi2 = sixty

禮拜六 lai5 baai3 luk6 li3 bai4 liu4 = Saturday

第六十 dai6 luk6 sap6 di4 liu4 shi2 = sixtieth

六個字 luk6 go3 zi6 = thirty minutes (also 半 in telling time)

五顏六色 ng5 ngaan4 luk6 sik1 = multi-coloured, colorful, motley

六角括號 luk6 gok3 kut3 hou6 = "six corner" brackets

前四後六 cin4 sei3 hau6 luk6 = 10 weeks maternity leave

週六 zau1 luk6 zhou1 liu4 = Saturday 國
See all 68 compounds (CantoDict reports 98 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 7 examples containing 六

我有六呎高。
I am six feet tall.

一分鐘有六十秒。
There are sixty seconds in a minute.

一小時有六十分鐘。
There are sixty minutes in an hour.

佢病到五顏六色粵
He is seriously ill.

我聽朝喺六點鐘開工，所以我今晚唔可以行公司粵
I‘ve got to start work at six tomorrow, so I can't go shopping tonight.
[Lit. I tomorrow morning at six o'clock start-work, therefore I this-evening cannot go-shopping]

筆錢拖欠咗六個月。粵
The payment has been six months in arrears.
[Where Cantonese language uses a concrete word (拖欠) with substantial meaning as the verb, English language uses two function words (has been) as the verb. ]

雖然佢三十六度板斧都出齊，但都唔夠你犀利粵
Although he put in all that he knew, he could not match up with you.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 六
Unicode code for this character: U+516d (off-site link)

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