六日
6th of the month, six days
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Examples
- 六日に映画を見ます。I see a movie on the 6th.
- 六日間休暇を取った。I took six days off.
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Mnemonic
Muika (六日) reads the 6th, a six-day span, or just six days — 六 plus 日. It sits in the Yamato days 1-10 ladder learned earlier: tsuitachi, futsuka, mikka, yokka, itsuka, muika, nanoka, youka, kokonoka, touka. 六 plus ka writes as muika and pronounces as roughly moo-ee-kah (three mora). The on-yomi roku-nichi is ungrammatical; the Yamato muika is fixed. 六 readings (covered earlier in roku): on-yomi roku for days and years, Yamato muttsu for the 1-10 counter, muika for the 6th-of-month form, and the rare on-yomi variant mu. Usage: muika-kan (six-day span) appears in "muika-kan de kansei suru" (finish in six days) and "muika-kan no tabi" (six-day trip), "natsu-yasumi muika-kan" (six-day summer vacation). The cultural code of 六 was covered in roku. Korean reads 6-il in sino-Korean; Chinese splits between liu-ri and 6 hao. JLPT N5 keys on muika, with mikka, yokka, muika, youka studied together as the four core Yamato day-readings. Japanese naturally splits 1-10 (Yamato) from 11 onward (on-yomi plus nichi).
Quick check
Reading pattern shift after the 10th in the Japanese days-1-10 matrix?