ハチ
Meanings
Numeric
1. eight; 8
捌 is used in legal documents
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (59 in total)
Cyathea mertensiana (species of tree fern)
sixteen
Hachiōji (city)
two eights; hachi-hachi (type of game)
plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (sometimes striped)
the eight precepts (the five precepts with the addition of prohibitions against lying in a luxurious bed, self-decoration, song and dance, and eating after noon)
eight o'clock
18; eighteen
eighty; 80
eight (long cylindrical things)
twenty-eighth day of the month; twenty-eight days
eight-tenths; casting someone out; type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up eight-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg
figure eight; figure of eight; shape of "hachi", the kanji for eight
80000; many
shakuhachi; end-blown fippleless bamboo flute; blow job; fellatio
about 80%; almost certainly; mostly
800,000; eight hundred thousand
108; one hundred and eight; the number of kleshas, worldly thoughts and passions; the sum of 12 months, 24 seasons of the solar year, and 72 'climates' of one year
eight faces; all sides
the 8 districts of feudal Japan
(in) the shape of the character hachi (eight)
large hanging paper lantern
eight-tenths
eight winds; eight things that hinder enlightenment; prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure; eight winds (e.g. in eight directions)
bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation; onlookers see more of the game than the players do; (lit.) people watching a game of go see 8 moves further ahead
customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues; brothel; owner of a brothel
the eighties (age, years, etc.)
The Eight Greater Hells
the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
finely trimmed moustache
below eye level; about eight-tenths full
eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring
eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring
eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness)
soba made with two parts wheat flour to eight parts buckwheat flour
octal; base 8
the eight gods who preside over the lucky/unlucky directions of the koyomi for each year
the eight gods who preside over the lucky/unlucky directions of the koyomi for each year
quarterfinal round; final eight
the average Joe; your average nice guy; Joe Blow; Joe Bloggs
octennial; recurring every eight years
it often takes time for one's actions to bear fruit; (lit.) planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight
center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas)
eight-hour day
the Beatitudes
eight great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Mezu, Munosho, Trilokavijaya, Ucchusma, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka)
kanji "eight" radical at top
Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)
Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)
eight parts of speech (in traditional English grammar, etc.)
eighth brain nerve; nervus vestibulocochlearis; vestibulocochlear nerve
octant (instrument)
being besieged by suitors; to be popular; (lit.) eight suitors for one daughter
eight-hour working day system
the eight volumes of the Lotus Sutra
the eight unpardonable crimes in ancient Japanese law
Examples (13 in total)
I work eight hours every day.
I slept eight hours last night.
He built forty-eight forts.