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Definition
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eight
他儿子今年八岁了。His son is 8 this year.
- 8
- meaning component (to separate, around separation, halving)
- all around
- all sides
- radical (Kang Xi 12)
Compounds (47)
small; little; tiny; young; (a) few; child; (for a) while; graphic component (often seen in other characters); concubine; radical (Kang Xi 42)
mutual; common; joint; general; to share (with); together; altogether; (in) total; (in) all; Communist party (short for 共产党)
tree; wood; meaning component (plants, wood and more largely things made of wood); radical (Kang Xi 75); coffin; wooden; simple; numb; one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音
public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
to rise; to flourish; to become popular; to start; to encourage; to get up; (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect); maybe (dialect)
tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier (for devices, coffins, dead bodies); measure word
cave; meaning component (caves, holes...); radical (Kang Xi 116); cavity; hole; acupuncture point; Taiwan pr. [xue4]
canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
to lie (prone, face down, on one's stomach); to bend (over a table, face down); to lean (on); to lean (forward, resting one's upper body on a desktop etc); (Taiwan) percent
component; to respect; reverence; 3rd earthly branch (period from 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month [4th February-5th March]); year of the Tiger; ancient Chinese compass point: 60°
heart; meaning component (heart, feelings, temperament, thoughts, mental activities...); left radical variant (Kang Xi 61)
Related words (145)
eight surges (a group of eight acupoints in Chinese acupuncture, namely PC-9, TB-1, HT-9 and LV-3, bilaterally)
"eight principles," a method of giving a general description and syndrome differentiation (TCM)
the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)
music; (used in advertising instrumental tuition); (archaic) musical instruments made of eight different materials (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹)
"eight wind points", name of a set of acupuncture points (EX-LE-10), four on each foot
policy expressed in eight characters, e.g. 巩固、深化、提高、发展[Gong3 gu4 , shen1 hua4 , ti2 gao1 , fa1 zhan3] "Consolidate, deepen, enhance and grow"; eight-character policy
bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called second Taiwan strait crisis
(lit.) there is not even the first stroke of the character 八; things have not even begun to take shape; no sign of success yet
(lit.) there is not even the first stroke of the character 八; things have not even begun to take shape; no sign of success yet
to have one's fortune read; system of fortune telling based on a person's date and time of birth, according to 干支 (sexagenary cycle)
one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch
thirty eighth parallel; dividing line agreed at Yalta between US and Soviet zones of influence in Korea, now the DMZ between North and South Korea
eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art; Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble
28-spotted ladybird; hadda beetle; Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata
Idioms (14)
(lit.) there is not even the first stroke of the character 八 (idiom); (fig.) things have not even begun to take shape; no sign of success yet
everything in disorder (idiom); mess-up; (in a hideous) mess; messy; (in great) disorder; chaotic; at sixes and sevens
(lit.) a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom); (fig.) a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
(lit.) the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions; to be observant and alert (idiom)
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