第六感

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 第六感 is read as だいろっかん and is a noun for a sixth sense or intuition that seems to detect something beyond the five ordinary senses.
• Basic usage: An intuition activates in 第六感が働く, while sensing danger appears in 第六感で危険を感じる.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Sense and intuition
  • It describes an apparently intuitive awareness rather than information directly obtained through sight, hearing, and the other ordinary senses.
• Certainty and evidence
  • It can express a strong feeling, but the term does not make that feeling objective proof.