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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
- —狸の金玉八畳敷きsomething spread out widely; something taking a lot of space; eight jō of a raccoon dog's scrotum
- —八十日間世界一周Around the World in Eighty Days (1873 novel by Jules Verne)
- —鬼も十八番茶も出花just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth
- —明治二十七八年戦役Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)
- —腹八分目に医者いらずeating moderately keeps the doctor away
- —無くて七癖有って四十八癖every person has their eccentricities
- —当たるも八卦当たらぬも八卦a prediction may or may not come true; only god knows what will happen
- —八反twilled fabric
- —八段twilled fabric
- —八挺skillfulness
- —勘八greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili); purplish amberjack; greater yellowtail
- —八百800; eight hundred; multitude; large number
- —八分eight minutes; triangular-swept clerical script (clerical script whose horizontal lines end in a noticeable triangular tail)
- —八逆eight unpardonable crimes (in ancient Japanese law)
- —百八108; one hundred and eight; the number of kleshas, worldly thoughts and passions; the sum of 12 months, 24 seasons of the solar year, and 72 microseasons of one year
- —八千8000; eight thousand; many
- —忘八customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues; brothel; owner of a brothel
- —八強quarterfinal round; final eight
- —八時eight o'clock
- —八才eight-year-old; eight year old