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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
- —八端twilled fabric
- —八道the 8 districts of feudal Japan
- —八福the Beatitudes
- —八面eight faces; all sides
- —八本eight (long cylindrical things)
- —間八greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili); purplish amberjack; greater yellowtail
- —八景eight picturesque sights
- —八分eight-tenths; ostracism; casting someone out; type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up eight-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg
- —八寸distance of eight sun (approx. 24 cm); dish or tray of this size (esp. used in kaiseki cuisine to serve several kinds of delicacies); food served in such a dish; variety of thick, traditional Japanese paper
- —八部the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
- —八頭kanji "eight" radical at top
- —八角octagon; star anise (Illicium verum); sailfin poacher (Podothecus sachi)
- —八虐eight unpardonable crimes (in ancient Japanese law)
- —八宗the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period
- —八家the eight early Japanese Buddhist sects; the eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian period
- —八万80000; many
- —八識eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness)
- —八州Japan; the eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke and Shimotsuke)
- —八姓eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Ason, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi)
- —八省the eight ministries (under the Department of State of the ritsuryō system)