six
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
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ブラジル出身で、日本に住んで六ヶ月です。
Burajiru shusshin de, Nihon ni sunde roku kagetsu desu.
Originally from Brazil, he's been living in Japan for six months.
時々、同じ話を五回も六回も練習します。
Tokidoki, onaji hanashi o gokai mo rokkai mo renshuu shimasu.
Sometimes, I practice the same story five, six times.
私は毎日、朝六時に起きます。
Watashi wa mainichi, asa rokuji ni okimasu.
Every day, I wake up at six in the morning.
三百グラムだと六百円ですね。
Sanbyaku guramu da to roppyaku en desu ne.
So three hundred grams comes to six hundred yen.
いいね。忘れないで、衣替えは来年の六月にまた来るから。
Ii ne. Wasurenaide, koromogae wa rainen no rokugatsu ni mata kuru kara.
Good idea. Don't forget: koromogae comes around again next year, in June.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0