六

shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo

Buddhism

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

Historical term

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

calligraphic style of the Six Dynasties period

six to four ratio; sixty-forty

one jō and six shaku (4.85m)

statue of Buddha measuring one jō and six shaku

sitting cross-legged

dunce; blockhead

Abbreviation

hexadecimal; hexadecimal notation; hex

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

six forms of waka (allegorical, enumerative, metaphorical, allusive, plain, congratulatory)

six principles of calligraphy

six classes of kanji characters

sextuplets

Buddhism

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

julienne (esp. of daikon); long, thin strips

ban-sugoroku board (usu. wooden); sugoroku board

Astronomy

The Pleiades

nincompoop; simpleton

six days a week

age sixty; one's sixties

six external causes of illness in traditional Chinese medicine (wind, cold, fire/heat, dampness, dryness, heat of summer)

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

Buddhism

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

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

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

the six articles of faith (in Islam)

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

Rikkokushi; six national histories of Japan compiled in the Nara and Heian periods