はち
Meanings
Numeric
1. eight; 8
捌 is used in legal documents
Kanji used
eight
Pitch accent
Top 1600
Used in vocabulary (62 in total)
eight o'clock
eight (long cylindrical things)
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
① 16。16歳。「にはちそば」(二八蕎麦)の略。「にはちがつ」(二八月)の略。
figure eight; figure of eight; shape of "hachi", the kanji for eight
twenty-eighth day of the month; twenty-eight days
Hachiōji (city)
two eights; hachi-hachi (type of game)
80000; many
① 日本の伝統的な木管楽器の一種。② 書画に用いる幅1尺8寸の紙や布地。③ 竹製の花器の一種。④ 陰茎への口淫。フェラチオ。古くは口取り、雁が音などとも。
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
plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (sometimes striped)
about 80%; almost certainly; mostly
eight faces; all sides
800,000; eight hundred thousand
the 8 districts of feudal Japan
(in) the shape of the character hachi (eight)
large hanging paper lantern
eight winds; eight things that hinder enlightenment; prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure; eight winds (e.g. in eight directions)
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)
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
① 八十歳から八十九歳までの年齢。② 初代から数えて八十番目の当主、継承者。
The Eight Greater Hells
① 部首「⼋」で分類した漢字の一群。
customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues; brothel; owner of a brothel
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)
finely trimmed moustache
finely trimmed moustache
Cyathea mertensiana (species of tree fern)
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
the average Joe; your average nice guy; Joe Blow; Joe Bloggs
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
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
octennial; recurring every eight years
center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas)
quarterfinal round; final eight
octennial; recurring every eight years
octennial; recurring every eight years
being besieged by suitors; to be popular; (lit.) eight suitors for one daughter
eight great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Mezu, Munosho, Trilokavijaya, Ucchusma, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka)
octant (instrument)
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)
① 漢字の部首「⼋」の呼称の一つ。
eighth brain nerve; nervus vestibulocochlearis; vestibulocochlear nerve
eight parts of speech (in traditional English grammar, etc.)
the Beatitudes
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.