六

six

sixteen

64th note

six

hexagon

(rolling) a 1 and a 6 (with two dice)

six people

six (long cylindrical things)

ozeki ranked wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank

the six elements (earth, water, fire, wind, void, and consciousness)

the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, and down)

four and six (minutes, etc.)

Edo period to early Meiji non-working day falling on all days of the month with a 1 or a 6 in it (when written in kanji numerals, i.e. the 1st, 11th, 16th, 21st and 26th days of the month)

the Six Kingdoms (of China's Warring States period: Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Wei and Zhao)

the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive

sextuplets

six o'clock

(approx.) six o'clock (am or pm, old time system)

six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind)

yin, yang, wind, rain, darkness, light

the universe

julienne (esp. of daikon)

six copies

six codes (constitution, civil code, criminal code, commercial code, code of civil procedure, code of criminal procedure)

six ministries (of Zhou dynasty China)

the six articles of faith (in Islam)

six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school)

sixth

six to four ratio

the sixth hour of the morning

hexavalent chromium

the six classes of Chinese characters

elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words

hexadecimal

the six senses

Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen)

shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm)

an old man is twice a child

dividing something into six pieces

six flavors (bitter, sour, sweet, salty, spicy, light)

night and day

the six continents

six administrators of a Zen temple

inari and maki sushi served together

the six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love and hatred)

land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)

land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%

the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)

sixth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and north-west)

Rikkokushi

sixteen-day-old moon

roppyakken (type of game)

Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind)

the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Naraka realm)

six-chambered (revolver)

sixty percent

sixth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)

six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian)

die

six objective fields of the senses (shape and colour, sound, scent, flavour, physical feeling, and mental presentation)

rabbity six (standard dead shape in go)

snow

six forms of the Shi Jing (genre: folk song, festal song, hymn; style: narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison)

six-party talks (regarding the North Korean nuclear weapons program)

six days a week

the six articles of faith and five pillars of Islam

the five pillars of Islam and six articles of faith

the sixth sense

sexagesimal

hexadecimal

hexahedron

age sixty

six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)

sixth heaven (of the desire realm)

six kinds

Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967)

scoring combination consisting of sixteen 1-point cards

April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)

February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936)

the six blood relations

the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms)

six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind)

Tokyo Big Six Universities (esp. the baseball federation)

six-party talks (regarding the North Korean nuclear weapons program)

arsphenamine

compendium of laws

rokumi-gan (patent medicine)

nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)

pawnshop

pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine

six supernormal powers

six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)

nincompoop

gambling on whether the throw of a die will produce a "one" or a "six"

rokudan (name of a koto composition)

husband

fill-in (in magazines, newspapers, etc.)

regular hexahedron

hexagon

six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning)

beginning to learn (something) when one is old

Jūrokucha (blended tea drink)

sextant

hexagonal wrench

66-odd provinces of old Japan

four kinds of birth in the six destinies

race game (board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track)

Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967)

cold northerly winter wind from the Rokko Mountains

the six written characters of Buddha's name (used in prayer)

the six written characters of Buddha's name (used in prayer)

Jūrukunichī

The Pleiades

sexennial

36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese)

parallelepiped

sexagenary cycle

hexachloroethane

one jō and six shaku (4.85m)

crest of the Sanada clan (featuring six sen coins, trad. to pay for crossing the Sanzu River)

around 6pm

instrumental sextet

six schools of classical Indian philosophy

hexagon

the six domains of the desire realm

lithium hexafluorophosphate

the Six Forms of Avalokitesvara (one for each of the six realms)

people from Kansai

vocal sextet

Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is

Sextans (constellation)

Rokkou Cable Line

the thirty-six immortal poets (of the Heian period; as named by Fujiwara no Kintō)

six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

kid

six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu)

six immortals of poetry

Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan

Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China; 304-439 CE)

Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is

hexagram

hexagram

hexagonal crystal system

sugoroku

hexagonal building

ban-sugoroku

ban-sugoroku board (usu. wooden)

hexagonal prism

hexactinellid sponge