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Meaning of

Pinyin
Radical
Strokes
2
Definition
eight / 8
Usage
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八 [bā] 1. A number, the sum of seven plus one (represented as "捌" in banknotes and documents). (En: eight) Example: 面玲珑 (delicately beautiful). Eight trigrams (the eight basic figures in "I Ching"). 2. A number indicating an order, specifically the eighth (8th). (En: the eighth (8th)) Example: 八世 (eighth generation); 八年 (eighth year). 【Movement】 The character is pictographic, resembling the appearance of two things separated and facing away from each other. It is one of the components of Chinese characters. Many characters containing "八" relate to division, dispersion, or separation. Original meaning: to separate and leave each other (En: part; leave each other). 【Citation】 1. From "Shuowen Jiezi": 八 refers to separation; it resembles the shape of things turning back. Duan Yucai’s note: "In the dialects of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, things and people are referred to as 八, indicating separation from people." 2. From "Yupian": 八 refers to numbers. 3. In "Book of Songs · Xiaoya · Cutting Wood": "Presented eight vessels." 4. In "Guanzi · Five Elements": "Geography uses eight." Note: "A number of less yin." 5. In "Records of the Grand Historian · Year Nine of Duke Xiang": "Meets the eight of Gen." The historian said this referred to the second line of the hexagram, with all five other lines changing. For divination, six is used but not eight. Eight remains unchanged as less yin. 6. In "Shangshu Dazhuan": "Eight eyebrows, like the character 八." 7. In "Strategies of the Warring States · Qi Strategies": "Zou Ji was over eight feet tall." 8. In "Shu · Shun's Code": "Eight sounds harmonize." 9. In "Strategies of the Warring States · Yan Strategies": "King Qin attacked Ke again, suffering eight injuries." 10. In "Book of the Later Han · Biography of Cui Shi": "Eight generations," referring to the Three Kings and Five Emperors. 【Example】 Examples include: 八音 (the collective term for ancient Chinese musical instruments, typically made from eight different materials: metal, stone, silk, bamboo, gourd, clay, leather, wood); 八拜 (a traditional greeting ceremony among disciples to their elders, also refers to tying bonds of kinship among non-relatives).
sì yǎng bā chā
sprawled out on one's back (idiom)
bā gē
(bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)
qī zuǐ bā shé
lively discussion with everybody talking at once
qī dà gū bā dà yí
distant relatives
bā guà dāo
Bagua Knife
bā guà zhǎng
baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing)
bā guà jiào
Bagua
bā guà zhèn
eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics
bā guà tú
Bagua map
bā pǐ
Eight horses
宿 èr shí bā xiù
the twenty-eight constellations
bā cùn
Eight inches
shí bā suì
eighteen years old
Bā dá lǐng
Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination
bā dá lǐng cháng chéng
Badaling Great Wall
bā jiǎo mào
octagonal cap / octagonal hat
bā fān
yawata
廿 niàn bā
Twenty eight
Zhū Bā jiè
Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake / Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation
轿 bā tái dà jiào
palanquin with eight carriers / (fig.) lavish treatment
xiáng lóng shí bā zhǎng
Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms
bā jiè
the eight precepts (Buddhism)
shí bā nián
Eighteen years
shí bā
eighteen / 18
Bā yuè
August / eighth month (of the lunar year)
yī bā
one eight
bā gè
eight
bā jiǎo
anise / star anise / aniseed / octagonal / Fructus Anisi stellati
Bā lù jūn
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
hú shuō bā dào
to talk rubbish
sì tōng bā dá
roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides
bā guà
the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1] / gossip / gossipy
sì miàn bā fāng
in all directions / all around / far and near
Bā qí
Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty 後金|后金[Hou4 Jin1] from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty
dì bā
eighth
bā dà
Eight
bā jiè
Eighth
bā zhōng
Eight
bā wǔ
Eight five
bā wàn jīn
80 thousand catties
sì shí bā jīn
Forty-eight catties
bàn jīn bā liǎng
not much to choose between the two / tweedledum and tweedledee
bā xún
Eighty
bā jiǎo fēng
alangium
bā dòng
Eight buildings
shí bā kē
Eighteen trees
bā nián
Eight years
bā miàn líng lóng
be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations)
hú jiā shí bā pāi
Hu jia Shi Ba Pai
bā bàng
Eight pounds
Bā xiān
the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology)
bā xiān zhuō
old-fashioned square table to seat eight people
héng qī shù bā
in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom)
竿 bā gān zǐ dǎ bù zháo
very distant
là bā zhōu
Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar
wū qī bā zāo
everything in disorder (idiom) / in a hideous mess / obscene / dirty / filthy
róng bā chǐ
Honor and shame
bā qī
Eight seven
luàn qī bā zāo
everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess / at sixes and sevens
qī bā gè
Seven or eight
qī bā
Seven or eight
chǒu bā guài
ugly person
bā sōu
Eight ships
bā dài
Eight bags
qī líng bā luò
(idiom) everything broken and in disorder
bā kē
Eight
qī diān bā dǎo
topsy-turvy / at sixes and sevens / all upside down

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