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八

Eight
Stroke count: 2

Readings

On readingハチ
Kun readingや、や.つ、やっ.つ、よう

Meanings

  1. eightRtK
    八つeight thingstatoeba
    八月Augusttatoeba
  1. 8

Homonyms

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Same reading (はち)
鉢 · bowl蜂 · bee

Popular Usage

八つ八日八百屋お八

Radicals and components

Radical八eight

Compound words

彼女は八歳のときにダンスを始めた。はち
She started dancing when she was eight.tatoeba
このゲームは八百長だ。やおちょう
This game is fixed.tatoeba
あのレースは八百長だった。やおちょう
The race was fixed.tatoeba
彼は八方美人だ。
He's everybody's friend.tatoeba
彼は十中八九来るだろう。
He will come nine times out of ten.tatoeba
彼は十中八九会議に遅れる。
He is late for meetings nine times out of ten.tatoeba
彼は手八丁口八丁だ。
He is as ready to talk as to work.tatoeba
振八つ口を閉じた部分を人形と呼ぶ。
The closed Furiyatsukuchi is called Ningyo.wiki
表記は、八橋、八つ橋、八ッ橋とも。
It is written 八橋, 八つ橋 or 八ッ橋.wiki
八月十八日の政変
Coup of August 18wiki
又同八日之御状参着。
In addition, the letter arrived on 8th of the month.wiki
なお八幡市南北線は一般路線である。
This Yawata City North-South Bus Route was the publicly demonstrated route.wiki
なお八幡市南北線は6月30日の運行を持って終了する。
The Yawata City North-South Bus Route ceased its operation on June, 30, 2009.wiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

八村塁はレイカーズです。
はちむらるいはれいかーずです。Rui Hachimura is with the Lakers.
小さな八百屋だが安くて繁盛してる
ちいさなやおやだがやすくてはんじょうしてるA small greengrocer, but it's cheap and thriving.
私はこの本に八百円を払った。
わたしはこのほんにはちひゃくえんをはらった。I paid eight hundred yen for this book.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

2 strokes

Eight. Two strokes spread apart, as if splitting something in two.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 八

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