六
liù
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The number six, in counting and in figures. 六个人 is 'six people', 六月 June, 星期六 Saturday, 第六 'sixth'. It counts as a lucky number: liù sounds like 流 liú 'to flow', a promise that things will go smoothly.
Số sáu, dùng khi đếm và khi đọc các con số. 六个人 là sáu người, 六月 là tháng sáu, 星期六 là thứ bảy, 第六 là “thứ sáu” (số thứ tự). Đây là con số may mắn vì liù đọc gần giống 流 liú (trôi chảy), ngụ ý mọi việc suôn sẻ.
NumeralRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “六” mean?
The number six, in counting and in figures. 六个人 is 'six people', 六月 June, 星期六 Saturday, 第六 'sixth'. It counts as a lucky number: liù sounds like 流 liú 'to flow', a promise that things will go smoothly.
Is “六” formal or informal?
六 is generally neutral.