| 八 | ||||
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| 八 (U+516B) "eight" | ||||
| Pronunciations | ||||
| Pinyin: | bā | |||
| Bopomofo: | ㄅㄚ | |||
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | ba | |||
| Wade–Giles: | pa1 | |||
| Cantonese Yale: | baat | |||
| Jyutping: | baat3 | |||
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | pat | |||
| JapaneseKana: | ハチ hachi (on'yomi) | |||
| Sino-Korean: | 팔 pal | |||
| Hán-Việt: | bát | |||
| Names | ||||
| Chinese name(s): | (Top) 八字頭/八字头 bāzìtóu (Bottom) 八字底 bāzìdǐ (Top, inversed) 倒八字 dàobāzì | |||
| Japanese name(s): | (Top) 八頭/はちがしら hachigashira ハ ha (kana) | |||
| Hangul: | 여덟 yeodeol | |||
| Stroke order animation | ||||
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Radical 12 orradical eight (八部), meaningeight orall, is one of 23 of the 214Kangxi radicals that are composed of twostrokes. "八" is two bent lines that signaldivide. Eight is the single-digit number that can be divided by two the greatest number of times.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 44 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
八 is also the 11th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.丷 is an associated indexing component affiliated to the principal component八.
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 八 |
| +2 | 公六兮兯KO |
| +3 | 兰SC (=蘭->艸) |
| +4 | 共兲 (=天->大)关SC (=關->門)兴SC (=興->臼) |
| +5 | 㒵 (=貌->豸)㒶 (=公)㒷 (=興->臼)兵 |
| +6 | 其具典 |
| +7 | 㒸兹SC/variant (=茲->艸)养SC (=養->食) |
| +8 | 兺KO兼 |
| +9 | 兽SC (=獸->犬) |
| +11 | 兾/兾 (=冀)兿 (=藝->艸) |
| +14 | 冀 |
| +16 | 冁SC (=囅->口) |
| +18 | 㒹 (=顛->頁) |
There is a design nuance in different printing typefaces for this radical. In theKangxi Dictionary and in Korean hanja, there is a short horizontal line at the beginning of the character's second stroke. This short line does not exist in mostSimplified Chinese fonts used inmainland China, except for a few cases like the character八 as in theEmblem of thePeople's Liberation Army. It exists in most but not allTraditional Chinese fonts. In Japanese typeface, the presence of the short line depends on each typeface's design.
The short horizontal line exists only in printing typeface, not in any handwriting form.
| with a short line | without the short line |
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| 八 | 八 |
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above. | |
