Sinograph Addenda · Signs

six

Name	six
Reads	liù
Means	six
Taught in	04 · Counting the world

Where it comes from

The stated account: an old graph of a hut — roof above, legs below — borrowed whole for the numeral that shared its sound, the same move that gave the grammar its little words. Taught in the counting chapter.

How to remember it

A little house with the count of six under its roof.

In the wild

六十而耳順。liù shí ér ěr shùn"at sixty, nothing I heard could throw me" — literally "the ear was attuned"; 六十, the decade nothing could unsettle

Analects 2.4. urn:nabu:kanripo:KR1h0004:002:4a · license: attribution.