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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
- —十八界eighteen components of perception (six sense objects, six sense faculties, six sense consciousnesses)
- —藤八拳game of chance similar to rock, paper scissors, where the different hand gestures symbolize a fox, a hunter and a village head
- —八頭身beautiful well-proportioned woman (body 8 times longer than head)
- —八進法octal numeral system; octal notation
- —八元数octonion
- —八路軍Eighth Route Army; 18th Army Group of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China
- —八卦鏡bagua mirror (mirror used in divination in fengshui); pa kua mirror
- —八角鏡octagonal mirror
- —八王子Hachiōji (city)
- —八割方about 80%; almost certainly; mostly
- —八八花standard hanafuda pattern (orig. used to play hachi-hachi)
- —八天狗hattengu; tengu said to live among the 8 mountains of Atago, Hira, Daisen, Ōmine, Kurama, Iizuna, Hiko, and Shiramine
- —八角墳octagonal burial mound (Kofun period)
- —八ミリ8-mm (film, camera, etc.)
- —八高線Hachikō Line
- —一か八かsink or swim; all or nothing; hit or miss; make or break
- —嘘っ八百full of lies
- —四苦八苦being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money); the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
- —四通八達traffic network extending in all directions
- —四方八方all directions; every direction; all sides; all quarters; everywhere