6 (number)

natural number

The number six is a natural number that comes after the number five and before the number seven.

← 5 6 7 →
-1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Cardinalsix
Ordinal6th
(sixth)
Numeral systemsenary
Factorization2 × 3
Divisors1, 2, 3, 6
Greek numeralϚ´
Roman numeralVI
Roman numeral (unicode)Ⅵ, ⅵ, ↅ
Greek prefixhexa-/hex-
Latin prefixsexa-/sex-
Binary1102
Ternary203
Quaternary124
Quinary115
Senary106
Octal68
Duodecimal612
Hexadecimal616
Vigesimal620
Base 36636
Greekστ (or ΣΤ or ς)
Arabic٦
Persian۶
Urdu
Amharic
Bengali
Chinese numeral六,陆
Devanāgarī
Hebrewו (Vav)
Khmer
Thai
Telugu
Tamil

Six is also the first perfect number which means that the sum of its factors (1, 2 and 3) are equal to the number itself (6). The next perfect number is 28. In Roman numerals, it is VI.

The number six is an even number.

The number 6 (six) is half a dozen.