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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
- —黒八丈thick black silk from Hachijo Island
- —大八車large two-wheeled wagon
- —黄八丈yellow silk cloth with a dark striped or checkered pattern (from Hachijo island)
- —手八丁eloquence; cleverness in speaking
- —八正道noble eightfold path
- —八部衆the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
- —八哥鳥crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus); crested mynah
- —八角錐octagonal pyramid
- —八角柱octagonal prism
- —関八州the eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke and Shimotsuke)
- —八幡神Hachiman (god of war)
- —八品詞eight parts of speech (in traditional English grammar, etc.)
- —八分儀octant (instrument)
- —八箇年octennial; recurring every eight years
- —八将神the eight gods who preside over the lucky/unlucky directions of the traditional calendar for each year (in Onmyōdō)
- —八丈絹plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (dyed with botanical pigments found on the island)
- —八丈縞striped Hachijo silk cloth
- —八腕類octopods
- —八股文eight-legged essay (classical Chinese style of essay writing)
- —八丈桑Morus kagayamae (species of mulberry)