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.
部首Radical · in Time & Sequence
八
八 eight, divide (top form)
はちがしら hachigashira
2 strokesRadical of 1 kanjiPart of 24
Your ink in 八0% painted · 0 of 1 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
“Look at those two lines arching over the top like a veil being parted! This radical brings the energy of division and the clarity of separation to the "crown" of a kanji. When you see it, think of things being opened up, shared out from above, or a path that splits into two. It is the radical of distribution and the split perspective.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates the number eight, the act of splitting or opening from the top, or the allocation and sharing of resources.
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 1 kanji