#92
八
readings
stroke order
words containing 八
- 八 eight, 8
- 八つ当たり venting one's anger (on someone or something), taking out one's anger on
- 十八 eighteen, 18
- 十中八九 in 8 or 9 cases out of ten, in all probability
- 八十 eighty, 80
- 一か八か sink or swim, all or nothing, hit or miss, make or break
- 八月 August
- 四方八方 all directions, every direction, all sides, all quarters, everywhere
- 八つ eight
- 八つ裂き tearing limb from limb, tearing apart, cutting (a person) to pieces
- 八百 800, eight hundred
- 一八 wall iris, roof iris, Iris tectorum, fleur-de-lis
- 八日 8th day of the month
- 四苦八苦 being in dire distress, being hard put to it, being hard pressed (for money)
- 八百屋 greengrocer, fruit and vegetable shop
- 八本 eight (long cylindrical things)
- 八の字 figure eight, figure of eight
- 八方 all sides, the four cardinal directions and the four ordinal directions
- 二八 sixteen
- 八分 eight minutes
- 八分 eight-tenths
- 八重歯 double tooth, protruding tooth (like a fang), high canine
- 八百長 match fixing, put-up job, fixed game
- 百八十度 180 degrees
- 八方美人 everybody's friend, people pleaser, person who is affable to everybody, flunky
- 八幡 Hachiman (god of war)
- 八重 eightfold, octuple
- 十八番 one's favourite party trick (favorite), one's specialty, one's forte
- 八方ふさがり being boxed in on all sides, having obstacles in every direction, being at a loss (what to do), being in a fix
- 八百万 myriad, countless things
- 八百万 8,000,000, eight million
- 村八分 ostracism
- 口八丁 voluble, eloquent
- 八卦 eight trigrams (divination signs), bagua
- 七転八倒 tossing oneself about in great pain, writhing in agony
- 八面六臂 competent in all fields, jack of all trades, very active in many fields, versatile, all-round, 8 faces and 6 arms
Radical
Radical #12
⼋
はち · eight
Kanji indexed under the ⼋ radical
references reference codes
- SKIP
- 1-1-1
- S-H Descriptor
- 2o0.1
- Four Corner
- 8000.0
- De Roo
- 2062
- Nelson (Classic)
- 577
- Nelson (New)
- 369
- Halpern (NJECD)
- 3
- Halpern (KKD)
- 3644
- Heisig
- 8
- Heisig (6th ed)
- 8
- Morohashi
- 1450
- Henshall
- 66
- Spahn-Hadamitzky
- 10
