字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE前2.32.4 合37459 黃組
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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八
八 eight, divide
はち hachi
2 strokesRadical of 7 kanjiPart of 24
Your ink in 八0% painted · 0 of 7 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
Two bent lines indicating the original meaning of "to divide". This character is later borrowed to mean "eight" because of homonymy, making the original meaning obsolete (now represented by 分 and 別).
Source: Wiktionary, 八 (rev. 92707648), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Split it right down the middle! This radical carries the energy of division and the clarity of separation. Whether it’s sharing a meal fairly, dividing a territory, or simply the number "eight," hachi tells you that the character involves a split or a specific quantity. It is the radical of order and distribution.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates the number eight, the act of dividing or splitting, or the concept of things moving apart or being distributed.
一覧
Every kanji with 八 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 7 kanji