ろく
Meanings
Numeric
1. six; 6
陸 is used in legal documents
Kanji used
six
Pitch accent
Top 1500
Used in vocabulary (78 in total)
six o'clock; six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night)
the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Naraka realm)
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
inari and maki sushi served together
six feet; traditional Japanese G-string for men; palanquin bearer
the six elements (earth, water, fire, wind, void, and consciousness)
six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
sixth heaven (of the desire realm)
six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning)
the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms)
six-chambered (revolver)
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen); calligraphic style of the Six Dynasties period
one jō and six shaku (4.85m); statue of Buddha measuring one jō and six shaku; sitting cross-legged
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)
the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment
Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine
Milk Dipper; southern dipper asterism (star pattern) within Sagittarius
the six articles of faith (in Islam)
land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)
die; dice; gambling with dice; playing hazard; You can never tell what will pop up
the six classes of (kanji) characters; Hexateuch (first six books of the Hebrew Bible)
six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
the six domains of the desire realm; the six heavens of the desire realm
the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)
instrumental sextet
the Six Forms of Avalokitesvara (one for each of the six realms)
February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936); February 1936 military revolt
the six blood relations
the six written characters of Buddha's name (used in prayer)
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
AAAA battery; AAAA cell
Battle of Rokuhara (Genkō War; 1333); Capture of Rokuhara
(arch.) kid; (arch.) brat; person from Kansai
the six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love and hatred)
person from Kansai
(arch.) kid; (arch.) brat; person from Kansai
(arch.) kid; (arch.) brat; person from Kansai
64th note; hemidemisemiquaver; semidemisemiquaver
six administrators of a Zen temple
(space) filler; fill-in (in magazines, newspapers, etc.)
six flavors (bitter, sour, sweet, salty, spicy, light); six palates; six tastes; rokumi-gan (patent medicine)
36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese)
six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school)
rokudan (name of a koto composition)
rabbity six (standard dead shape in go); rabbitty six
hexachloroethane; perchloroethanes
the six tools of the ninja
arsphenamine; compound 606; salvarsan
Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch; Platform Sutra
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.