六

Buddhism

the sixteen arhats

gambling on whether the throw of a die will produce a "one" or a "six"; gambling with dice

gambling

(a) risk; gamble; venture; hazardous attempt

Computing

hexadecimal; hexadecimal notation; hex

summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month)

Proverb

first born, least clever

Archaic

kid; brat

Derogatory

person from Kansai

Abbreviation; Abbr. of 単六型乾電池

AAAA battery; AAAA cell

A6 paper size (105mm x 148mm)

士 represents November as it can be decomposed into 十一 (11)

nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)

cobalt-60

Jūrukunichī; New Year's Day of the Dead; Okinawan festival celebrated on the 16th day of the first month in the lunar calendar

Colloquial

pawnshop

rabbity six (standard dead shape in go); rabbitty six

(rolling) a 1 and a 6 (with two dice)

Abbreviation

dice gambling

Slang

(armed) robbery; mugging

Historical term

Edo period to early Meiji non-working day falling on all days of the month with a 1 or a 6 in it (when written in kanji numerals, i.e. the 1st, 11th, 16th, 21st and 26th days of the month)

sixth

four and six (minutes, etc.)

twenty-four (product of four and six)

Abbreviation

shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm)

Abbreviation

elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words

elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words

elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words

Product name

Jūrokucha (blended tea drink)

36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese)

hexagram

Mathematics

parallelepiped

the five pillars of Islam and six articles of faith

Hanafuda

scoring combination consisting of sixteen 1-point cards