ろく
Meanings
Numeric
1. six; 6
陸 is used in legal documents
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (74 in total)
16; sixteen
six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
sixty; 60
twenty-six; 2am
die; dice; gambling with dice; playing hazard; You can never tell what will pop up
six o'clock; six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night)
the six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love and hatred)
inari and maki sushi served together
the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Naraka realm)
one jō and six shaku (4.85m); statue of Buddha measuring one jō and six shaku; sitting cross-legged
Hexateuch (first six books of the Hebrew Bible)
husband
the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment
sixth heaven (of the desire realm)
Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen); calligraphic style of the Six Dynasties period
gambling; speculation
the six blood relations
the six written characters of Buddha's name (used in prayer)
sixth year of elementary school; sixth year elementary school student
the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive
the six elements (earth, water, fire, wind, void, and consciousness)
February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936); February 1936 military revolt
six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning)
six kinds
the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms)
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
six-chambered (revolver)
crest of the Sanada clan (featuring six sen coins, trad. to pay for crossing the Sanzu River)
six to four ratio; sixty-forty
six external causes of illness in traditional Chinese medicine (wind, cold, fire/heat, dampness, dryness, heat of summer)
six forms of the Shi Jing (genre: folk song, festal song, hymn; style: narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison); six forms of waka (allegorical, enumerative, metaphorical, allusive, plain, congratulatory); six principles of calligraphy; six classes of kanji characters
the six written characters of Buddha's name (used in prayer)
Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
Milk Dipper; southern dipper asterism (star pattern) within Sagittarius
pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine
land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)
the six articles of faith (in Islam)
six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)
instrumental sextet
the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)
the six domains of the desire realm; the six heavens of the desire realm
the Six Forms of Avalokitesvara (one for each of the six realms)
sexagesimal; base 60
sulfur hexafluoride
sulfur hexafluoride
person from Kansai
(arch.) kid; (arch.) brat; person from Kansai
six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian)
great six-syllable mantra ("om mani padme hum")
six supernormal powers
Battle of Rokuhara (Genkō War; 1333); Capture of Rokuhara
AAAA battery; AAAA cell
64th note; hemidemisemiquaver; semidemisemiquaver
six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school)
arsphenamine; compound 606; salvarsan
rokudan (name of a koto composition)
(space) filler; fill-in (in magazines, newspapers, etc.)
the six tools of the ninja
36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese)
six administrators of a Zen temple
hexachloroethane; perchloroethanes
lithium hexafluorophosphate
lithium hexafluorophosphate
rabbity six (standard dead shape in go); rabbitty six
Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch; Platform Sutra
six flavors (bitter, sour, sweet, salty, spicy, light); six palates; six tastes; rokumi-gan (patent medicine)
land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
Examples (15 in total)
The difference in their ages is six years.
I have been studying English for six years now.
She is going to be six next year.