音読み: ハチ
訓読み: や・やっ・
やっつ・よう
画数: 2
部首: はち（八）
Meaning
Eight / Number 8
- 八 — eight
- 八つ — eight (traditional counting)
- 八日 — the 8th day of the month
- 八月 — August
- 八百屋 — greengrocer / produce shop
- 八方 — all directions
More examples
- 八重桜 — double-flowered cherry blossom
- 八幡 — Hachiman shrine / Shinto deity
- 尺八 — traditional bamboo flute
- 八百長 — match fixing / rigged contest
- 八方美人 — people-pleaser / trying to please everyone
“八” is written with two strokes that spread outward. Besides meaning “eight,” it often suggests “spreading” or “opening out” in a visual sense, and it appears in many everyday words like 八月 and 八方.