六

Meanings: six, 6, sixth On Readings: ロク roku Kun Readings: む mu, むい mui, むっ（つ） mut(tsu), む（つ） mu(tsu) Most Used Pronunciation: roku JLPT Level: 4 (see all JLPT 4 kanji) Grade: 1 Kanji Part: 八 Stroke Number: 4

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Common jukugo
六日 - むい　か mui ka - the 6th of the month [I hesitate to introduce this, but instead of counting ichi, ni, san... for the first 10 days of the month they use other pronunciations! But don't let this get to you. If you have to, you can just say, "roku nichi" (6 day) and will probably be understood]
六月 - ろく　がつ roku gatsu - June [the 6th month]

Useful Examples
Japanese: 朝の六時に起きました。
Romaji: asa no roku ji ni okimashita.
English: I woke up at 6 this morning.

Look alike kanji
大

Notes/Mnemonic
A picture of a man stretching his hands and legs is the character for '6'

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Many example sentences are from the Tanaka Corpus as modified for use with WWWJDIC.