Example sentences
xiàn现zài在liù六diǎn点。
It's six o'clock.
xīng星qī期liù六jiàn见。
See you Saturday.
The story behind the character
六
六 originally meant a house. The earliest form looks like a little hut with a peaked roof. It got borrowed for the number six, and the house meaning fell away.
Related words
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