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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
- —八戒the eight precepts (the five precepts with the addition of prohibitions against lying in a luxurious bed, self-decoration, song and dance, and eating after noon)
- —八双style of sword fighting
- —丸八Cyathea mertensiana (species of tree fern)
- —八間large hanging paper lantern (used in bathhouses, yose theatres, izakaya, etc.)
- —八専49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain)
- —八白eighth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and north-east)
- —八丈plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (sometimes striped)
- —八徳the eight virtues
- —亡八customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues; brothel; owner of a brothel
- —八股eight-legged essay (classical Chinese style of essay writing)
- —八珍eight delicacies
- —三八three and eight; Arisaka Type 38 rifle
- —八八two eights; hachi-hachi (type of game)
- —八風eight winds; eight things that hinder enlightenment; prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure; eight winds (e.g. in eight directions)
- —八軸the eight volumes of the Lotus Sutra
- —八佾Ba Yi (ancient Chinese dance practiced in the court of the Zhou king)
- —八割eighty percent
- —第八eighth
- —八段eighth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)
- —八人eight people