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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
- —八佾Ba Yi (third chapter of the Analects of Confucius)
- —八歳eight-year-old; eight year old
- —嘘八百pack of lies; complete fabrication; all lies
- —口八丁voluble; eloquent
- —村八分ostracism; complete ostracism of a household (the harshest punishment in Edo-period village law)
- —八角形octagon
- —八極拳bajiquan (Chinese martial art)
- —八九分nearly; almost; eight or nine parts (out of ten)
- —八卦掌eight trigrams palm; ba gua zhang; pa kua chang
- —八字髭finely trimmed moustache
- —八幡宮shrine dedicated to Hachiman; Hachiman shrine
- —八辺形octagon
- —八千年8000 years; thousands of years; eternity
- —八分目eight-tenths
- —十八金18-carat gold
- —八宝菜babaocai; eight-treasure vegetables
- —目八分below eye level; about eight-tenths full
- —八文字(in) the shape of the character hachi (eight)
- —八面体octahedron
- —腹八分eating moderately; moderation in eating; eating until 80% full