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JLPT N5 SL1 2 strokes Frequency: #92

Meanings

Eight

Radicals

Decomposition

Etymology

Ideographic: Two bent lines meaning "to divide"

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 2

Stroke Order

1 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
2 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ハチ hachi
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
ya
やっ ya
よう you

Words Using This Kanji

253 words total
Other (20 words)
娘一人に婿八人 むすめひとりにむこはちにん

being besieged by suitors

八十の手習い はちじゅうのてならい

you're never too old to learn

八角鏡 はっかくきょう

octagonal mirror

腹八分目に医者いらず はらはちぶんめにいしゃいらず

eating moderately keeps the doctor away

八八 はちはち

two eights

八八 はちはち

two eights

八王子 はちおうじ

Hachiōji (city)

八風 はちふう

eight winds

八時間制 はちじかんせい

eight-hour day

八時間労働制 はちじかんろうどうせい

eight-hour working day system

伝持の八祖 でんじのはっそ

the eight doctrinal patriarchs who expounded the teachings (Nagarjuna, Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, Yi Xing, Huigo and Kukai) (in Shingon)

付法の八祖 ふほうのはっそ

the Eight Lineage Patriarchs who received the transmission of the teachings, leading back to the Vairocana Buddha (Vairocana Buddha, Vajrasattva, Nagarjuna, Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, Huigo and Kukai) (in Shingon)

八割方 はちわりがた

about 80%

八八花 はちはちばな

standard hanafuda pattern (orig. used to play hachi-hachi)

八八花 はちはちばな

standard hanafuda pattern (orig. used to play hachi-hachi)

鬼も十八 おにもじゅうはち

even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth

八軸 はちじく

the eight volumes of the Lotus Sutra

一人尺八 ひとりしゃくはち

autofellatio

八百長試合 やおちょうじあい

fixed match

八角墳 はっかくふん

octagonal burial mound (Kofun period)