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八
八 is a Japanese kanji written with 2 strokes, listed here under the keyword “eight”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 8. It appears as a component in 33 other characters in this index.
- Keyword
- eight
- RTK frame
- 8
- Strokes
- 2
- On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
- ハチ, ハツ
- Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
- や, や.つ, やっ.つ, よう
- Script
- Japanese kanji
- Also known as
- infinity, animal legs, восемь, tool, fins
- Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
- 八 eight
Decomposition
No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.
Characters that contain 八
- 六 six
- 只 only
- 貝 shellfish
- 具 tool
- 火 fire
- 脊 spinal column
- 分 part
- 公 public
- 谷 valley
- 父 father
- 穴 hole
- 兵 soldier
- 興 entertain
- 寒 cold
- 塞 block up
- 乗 ride
- 束 bundle
- 黄 yellow
- 共 together
- 典 code
- 益 benefit
- 呉 give
- 挙 raise
- 誉 reputation
- 寅 sign of the tiger
- 犀 rhinoceros
- 爾 let it be
- 輿 palanquin
- 嚢 cyst
- 叡 sapience
- 其 bushel basket
- 㕣 gully
- sparkler
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