六 (liù): meaning and stroke order

六 in our stories

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• 学校只有两间教室，五十多个学生，最小的才六岁。

  xuéxiào zhǐ yǒu liǎng jiān jiàoshì wǔshí duō gè xuésheng zuì xiǎo de cái liù suì

  The school had only two classrooms and fifty-odd pupils; the youngest was just six.

  From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5

• 她事先做过功课：原材料这半年确实涨了，但涨幅只有百分之六左右。

  tā shìxiān zuò guò gōngkè yuáncáiliào zhè bàn nián quèshí zhǎng le dàn zhǎngfú zhǐ yǒu bǎi fēn zhī liù zuǒyòu

  She had done her homework: raw materials had indeed risen over the past six months, but only by about six percent.

  From the story A minute of silence HSK 7–9 · Level 7

• 商朝末年，陈塘关的总兵李靖家里出了一件怪事：夫人怀孕三年零六个月，生下来的竟然是一个肉球。

  Shāngcháo mònián Chéntángguān de zǒngbīng Lǐ Jìng jiā lǐ chū le yí jiàn guài shì fūren huáiyùn sān nián líng liù gè yuè shēng xiàlai de jìngrán shì yí gè ròuqiú

  At the end of the Shang dynasty a strange thing happened in the house of Li Jing, commander of Chentang Pass: his wife was pregnant for three years and six months, and what she gave birth to was a ball of flesh.

  From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8