Word Meaning 六十四卦

ろくじゅうしけ rokujuushike

六十四卦 is read as ろくじゅうしけ (rokujuushike) and means the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes).

Meaning

English

  1. the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)

Reading

Kana

ろくじゅうしけ

Romaji

rokujuushike

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 19 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

Kanken 準1級 Rank 143157 Priority W

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

六十四分音符

ろくじゅうしぶおんぷ

64th note

六十

むそ

sixty

六十六部

ろくじゅうろくぶ

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

六公四民

ろくこうよんみん

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

六十余州

ろくじゅうよしゅう

66-odd provinces of old Japan

六十進法

ろくじっしんほう

sexagesimal

六三三四制

ろくさんさんよんせい

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)

六十干支

ろくじっかんし

sexagenary cycle

六道四生

ろくどうししょう

four kinds of birth in the six destinies

六十の手習い

ろくじゅうのてならい

beginning to learn (something) when one is old

六十の三つ子

ろくじゅうのみつご

an old man is twice a child

六十路

むそじ

age sixty