Kanji meanings › Eight
Kanji for Eight
The kanji for “eight” is 八, read hachi and written in 2 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
eight
Eight, a lucky number in Japan because its shape widens toward the future (末広がり).
2 strokes On reading ハチ (hachi) Kun reading や、やつ、やっつ (ya, yatsu, yattsu) JLPT N4
Dictionary meanings: eight, eight radical (no. 12)
Readings used for names on Nazuke: hachi, ya
In Japan it appears in about 732 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
Names written with 八: Alejandro 安礼生八道路 · Ja 八 · Yan 八 · Yer 八 · Yun 八 · Jani 八新 · Maya 真八 · Marya 真八 · Aaliyah 安理八
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