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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Sino-Vietnamese word from 六 (“six”).
Numeral
lục
- (Sino-Vietnamese) six
Synonyms
Derived terms
- đàn tam thập lục (“dulcimer with 36 strings”)
- lục bát (六八, “poem with lines of 6 and 8 syllables”)
- lục bộ (六部)
- lục đạo (六道)
- lục giác (六角, “hexagon”)
- lục huyền cầm (六絃琴, “scalloped guitar”)
- lục lăng (六棱)
- lục nghệ (六藝)
- lục phủ ngũ tạng (六腑五臟, “eleven internal organs of body”)
- lục phủ (六腑, “six hollow internal organs of body”)
- lục súc (六畜, “six domestic animals”)
- lục thao tam lược (六韜三略)
- lục thư (六書, “six types of Han characters”)
- lục tuần (六旬, “sixty years of age”)
- súng lục (銃六, “revolver; pistol”)
- Tam thập lục kế (三十六計, “Thirty-Six Stratagems”)
- thập lục phân (十六分, “hexadecimal”)
Etymology 2
Sino-Vietnamese word from 綠, from Literary Chinese 綠, using the same disambiguation of 青 (“grue”) with 綠／绿 (“green”) and 藍／蓝 (lam, “blue”). See also xanh (“grue”).
Adjective
lục
- (uncommon) green
- Synonym: xanh lá cây
Usage notes
- The word is not used very often. The most common use of it is to refer to one of the seven colors of a rainbow, as in the listing "đỏ, cam, vàng, lục, lam, chàm, tím".
Derived terms
See also
Colors in Vietnamese · màu sắc (layout · text)
| trắng
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xám
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đen
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| đỏ; thắm, thẫm
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cam; nâu
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vàng; kem
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| vàng chanh
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xanh, xanh lá cây, xanh lục, lục
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xanh bạc hà; xanh lục đậm
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| xanh lơ, hồ thuỷ; xanh mòng két
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xanh, xanh da trời, thiên thanh
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xanh, xanh dương, xanh nước biển, xanh lam, lam
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| tím; chàm
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tía
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hồng
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Etymology 3
From Proto-Vietic *-luk, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *luuk ~ *luək (“to touch, explore manually”); cognate with Pacoh lúc, Mon လုက် (lɜ̀k, “to touch, come in contact with, collide with”) and Khmer លូក (luuk).
Verb
lục • (磟)
- to rummage, to search with hands
Derived terms