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八 kanji
eight, eight radical (no. 12)
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 2
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ハチハツ
Kun readings
ややつやっつよう
Words with 八
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N5八Populareight; 8
- —尺八Popularshakuhachi; end-blown fippleless bamboo flute; blow job; fellatio
- —十八Populareighteen; 18
- —八方Popularall sides; the four cardinal directions and the four ordinal directions; large hanging paper lantern
- —八丁Popularskillfulness
- —八幡PopularHachiman (god of war); Hachiman shrine; certainly
- —八分音符Popular8th note; eighth note; quaver
- —八月PopularAugust; eighth month of the lunar calendar
- —八十Populareighty; 80
- —十八日Popular18th day of the month; 18 days
- —二十八日Popular28th day of the month; 28 days
- —三十八度線Popular38th parallel (that demarcates North Korea and South Korea)
- —二八sixteen
- —八掛lining for cuffs and hem of a kimono
- —八苦the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
- —八卦eight trigrams (divination signs); bagua; divination; fortune-telling
- —八紘the eight directions; the whole land; the whole world
- —八荒the national boundaries
- —八朔Hassaku orange (Citrus hassaku); 1st of August (lunar calendar)
- —八達(roads) running in all directions; convenient transportation; ability in any line