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六 "six" across Chinese, 1,400 years apart. Old Chinese *k.ruk → Middle Chinese ljuwk. Then the sound scattered while the character stayed identical. Kept -k: Cantonese luk6, Hokkien la̍k, Hakka liuk Glottal -ʔ: Wu loʔ, Gan liuʔ Lost: Mandarin liù, Xiang liou