Kosakata Kanji 六

hex key

sixty percent

six ministries (of Zhou dynasty China)

the six senses

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

cold, heat, dryness, dampness, wind, fire

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

six classes of kanji characters

six ministers (of the six Zhou dynasty Chinese ministries)

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

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

cold northerly winter wind from the Rokko Mountains

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

the universe

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

Rikkokushi

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

purification of the six roots of perception

six-year molar

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)

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

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

great six-syllable mantra ("om mani padme hum")

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

six o'clock

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

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

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

palanquin bearer

6 shaku long wooden pole (often oak)

traditional Japanese G-string for men

six kinds

an old man is twice a child

beginning to learn (something) when one is old

sexagenary cycle

the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)

sexagesimal

66-odd provinces of old Japan

age sixty

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

vocal sextet

instrumental sextet

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

Hexateuch (first six books of the Hebrew Bible)

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

the six articles of faith (in Islam)

the six articles of faith and five pillars of Islam

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

six supernormal powers

the six blood relations

all of one's relatives by blood and by marriage

hexagram

Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

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

six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)

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

the six continents

rokudan (name of a koto composition)

six administrators of a Zen temple

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

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

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

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

four kinds of birth in the six destinies

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

endless circle of transmigration in the six posthumous worlds

something that comes too late to be useful

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

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

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

Battle of Rokuhara (Genkō War; 1333)

the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment

six schools of classical Indian philosophy

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

roppyakken (type of game)

arsphenamine

Six Ministries (in Sui dynasty to Qing dynasty China)

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

six minutes

sextant

Sextans (constellation)

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

hexagon

hexactinellid sponge

hexagonal

hexagonal close packing

hexagonal crystal system

Compendium of Laws

compendium of laws

six (long cylindrical things)

rokumi-gan (patent medicine)

rokumi-gan (patent medicine)

hexahedron

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

the six domains of the desire realm

The Pleiades

six-chambered (revolver)

the six internal organs (large intestine, small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, san jiao, urinary bladder)

hexagram

The Six Secret Teachings and The Three Strategies of Huang Shigong (two ancient Chinese military treatises)