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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)
八部衆 はちぶしゅう

the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)

八大明王 はちだいみょうおう

eight great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Mezu, Munosho, Trilokavijaya, Ucchusma, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka)

八頭 はちがしら

kanji "eight" radical at top

二十八宿 にじゅうはっしゅく

28 mansions of Chinese astronomy (constellations dividing the ecliptic into 28 positions)

八百屋防風 やおやぼうふう

Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)

八種競技 はっしゅきょうぎ

octathlon

八方手を尽くす はっぽうてをつくす

to try all possible means

八角柱 はっかくちゅう

octagonal prism

八角 はっかく

octagon

八虐 はちぎゃく

eight unpardonable crimes (in ancient Japanese law)

八宗 はっしゅう

the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period

八家 はっけ

the eight early Japanese Buddhist sects

八万 はちまん

80000

八万四千 はちまんよんせん

many

八識 はっしき

eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness)

川八目 かわやつめ

Arctic lamprey (Lethenteron camtschaticum)

八目 やつめ

eighth (place, position, etc.)

砂八目 スナヤツメ

Far Eastern brook lamprey (Lethenteron reissneri)

千代に八千代に ちよにやちよに

for millennia and millennia

四方八方 しほうはっぽう

in all directions