6
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Translingual
Glyph origin
A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ६ (6)). See 6 § Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit for more.
Symbol
- The cardinal number six.
- A digit in the decimal system of numbering, as well as octal, and hexadecimal.
- (music, superscript) an indicator that a triad is in first inversion.
- (phonetics, often superscript) the pitch of a tone that is more extreme than 5; it will be higher or lower depending on local convention.
- (phonetics, Sinosphere, often superscript) tone number 6, typically identified with light departing yang qu (陽去).
- Synonym: ꜅
Gallery
- Letter styles
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Lining digit 6. -
Oldstyle 6 in Fraktur script.
Alternative forms
The following are equivalent forms as digits:
- Aegean numerals: please add, if you can
- Arabic (Eastern) numerals: ٦
- Arabic (Western) numerals: 6
- Assamese numerals: ৬
- Balinese numerals: ᭖
- Bengali numerals: ৬
- Brahmi numerals: 𑁬
- Chakma numerals: 𑄼
- Cham numerals: ꩖
- Devanagari numerals: ६
- Dhives Akuru numerals: 𑥖
- Garay numerals:
- Gujarati numerals: ૬
- Gurmukhi numerals: ੬
- Indic Siyaq numerals: please add, if you can
- Hanifi Rohingya numerals: 𐴶
- Javanese numerals: ꧖
- Kaktovik numerals: 𝋆
- Kannada numerals: ೬
- Kawi numerals: 𑽖
- Kayah Li numerals: ꤆
- Khmer numerals: ៦
- Khudawadi numerals: 𑋶
- Lanna numerals: (secular) ᪆, (religious) ᪖
- Lao numerals: ໖
- Lepcha numerals: ᱆
- Limbu numerals: ᥌
- Malayalam numerals: ൬
- Maya numerals: 𝋦
- Mende Kikakui numerals: please add, if you can
- Meroitic cursive numerals: please add, if you can
- Meitei numerals: ꯶
- Mongolian numerals: ᠖
- Myanmar numerals: ၆
- N'Ko numerals: ߆
- Ol Chiki numerals: ᱖
- Odia numerals: ୬
- Osmanya numerals: 𐒦
- Ottoman Siyaq numerals: please add, if you can
- Pahawh Hmong numerals: please add, if you can
- Persian numerals: ۶
- Saurashtra numerals: ꣖
- Sharada numerals: 𑇖
- Sinhalese numerals: ෬
- Sundanese numerals: ᮶
- Takri numerals: 𑛆
- Tamil numerals: ௬
- Telugu numerals: ౬
- Thai numerals: ๖
- Tibetan numerals: ༦
- Tirhuta numerals: 𑓖
- Warang Citi numerals: 𑣦
The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:
- Armenian numerals: Զ
- Brahmi numerals: 𑁗
- Chinese numerals: 陸/陆, 六
- CJK tally marks: 𝍶𝍲
- Counting rod numerals: 𝍮
- Egyptian numerals: 𓏿
- Ethiopic numerals: ፮
- Gothic numerals: 𐌵
- Greek numerals: Ϛ΄, ΣΤ΄, Ϝ΄, ϛ΄, στ΄, ϝ΄
- Hebrew numerals: ו
- Old Persian numerals: 𐏒𐏒𐏒
- Roman numerals: VI, vi, ↅ
- Sinhalese numerals: 𑇦
- Tally marks: 𝍸𝍷
See also
Other representations of 6:
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English
Noun
6 (plural 6s)
See also
Italian
Verb
6
- (text messaging, slang) r (= sei, second-person singular)
- dv 6? ― where r you?