Kiokun Logo
八
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

eight

HSK 1 N4
Abstract →Numbers
bā
ハチ、ハツ
や、や.つ、やっ.つ、よう
팔
Pictograph of two lines facing away from each other. The current meaning "eight" is a phonetic loan. The original meaning "separate" is now written as 別.
Notes
Historical Evolution
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Bronze
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Bronze
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
八
Regular
Modern
Chinese
八 [bā]
eight; 8
Japanese
八 、 ８ 、 捌 はち 、 や 同音
numeric eight; 8 (捌 is used in legal documents)
八 パー 同音
numeric eight
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
会は八時に解散した。
The meeting broke up at eight.
Japanese Names
八 たかはち
Takahachi surname
八 はち
Hachi surname
八 はちやなぎ
Hachiyanagi surname
八 はっ
Ha place name
八 はつさき
Hatsusaki surname
八 はつざき
Hatsuzaki surname
八 ひらく
Hiraku given name
八 や
Ya place name
八 やつやなぎ
Yatsuyanagi surname
CHINESE WORDS (200)
八卦 [bā​guà] #4,231
the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yì​jīng]
八月 [Bā​yuè] #13,304
August
乱七八糟 [luàn​qī​bā​zāo] #4,928
everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess
乱七八糟 [luàn​qī​bā​zāo] #4,928
everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess
王八 [wáng​bā] #3,315
tortoise
胡说八道 [hú​shuō​bā​dào] #3,948
to talk rubbish
胡说八道 [hú​shuō​bā​dào] #3,948
to talk rubbish
八成 [bā​chéng] #42,600
eighty percent
四面八方 [sì​miàn​bā​fāng] #21,131
in all directions
八路军 [Bā​lù​jūn] #16,983
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
190 more items
JAPANESE WORDS (200)
⭐ 八 [はち] #1,558
eight
⭐ 十八 [じゅうはち] #6,174
eighteen
８時 [はちじ] #8,092
eight o'clock
⭐ ８０ [はちじゅう] #8,833
eighty
⭐ ８月 [はちがつ] #9,905
August
⭐ 八つ当たり [やつあたり] #10,170
venting one's anger (on someone or something)
鳶尾 [いちはつ] #11,281
wall iris
四方八方 [しほうはっぽう] #14,525
in all directions
⭐ 八つ [やっつ] #15,304
eight
十中八九 [じっちゅうはっく] #16,222
in 8 or 9 cases out of ten
190 more items
KOREAN WORDS (10)
팔자 #10,900
destiny
팔도 #16,310
Korea
십중팔구 #41,524
almost all; supermajority
백팔십도
A state that something is completely turned around or changed in the opposite direction.
사방팔방
being in all directions; being all over the place; everywhere
팔만대장경
Palmandaejanggyeong
팔방
all directions; all sides
팔방미인
beauty
팔십
eighty
팔월
August