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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
- —傍目八目bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation; onlookers see more of the game than the players do; people watching a game of go see eight moves further ahead
- —七顛八倒tossing oneself about in great pain; writhing in agony
- —七顚八倒tossing oneself about in great pain; writhing in agony
- —胸突八丁the most trying spot or period; the most difficult period
- —百八十度180 degrees; complete (about-face; in policy, opinion, etc.); radical (change); hundred-and-eighty degree (turn)
- —八艘跳びleap up from the initial charge in order to surprise the opponent; (Minamoto Yoshitsune's legendary) eight ship leap
- —八分儀座Octans (constellation); the Octant
- —八反織りtwilled fabric
- —八丁みそhatcho miso; dark miso variety produced in Aichi Prefecture
- —百十八番118 (maritime emergency telephone number in Japan)
- —七顛八起not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds
- —八州回りKantō patrol inspector; Kantō regional inspector
- —八方塞がりbeing boxed in on all sides; having obstacles in every direction; being at a loss (what to do); being in a fix
- —八方にらみstaring at or watching all sides
- —天龍八部衆the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
- —八十八カ所88 temples (of, or modeled after those of, Shikoku)
- —八十八か所88 temples (of, or modeled after those of, Shikoku)
- —グーグル八分being delisted or censored by the Google search engine (of a website)
- —自棄のやん八(sense of) desperation
- —八方丸く治まるto end amicably for everyone involved; to be resolved to everyone's satisfaction; to be settled without hard feelings on any side