Jisho

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2 strokes
Radical:
eight
Parts:
eight, eight radical (no. 12)
Kun:
や.つやっ.つよう
On:
ハチハツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
92 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 八 【ハチ】 eight, 8
  • 8月 【ハチガツ】 August, eighth month of the lunar calendar
  • 十八 【ジュウハチ】 eighteen, 18
  • 尺八 【シャクハチ】 shakuhachi, end-blown fippleless bamboo flute, blow job, fellatio
  • 鳶尾 【イチハツ】 wall iris, roof iris, Iris tectorum, fleur-de-lis

Kun reading compounds

  • 八 【はち】 eight, 8
  • 八重 【やえ】 multilayered, doubled
  • 八つ 【やっつ】 eight, eight years of age, two o'clock (old time system)
  • 八つ当たり 【やつあたり】 venting one's anger (on someone or something), taking out one's anger on
  • 八つ 【やっつ】 eight, eight years of age, two o'clock (old time system)
  • 8日 【ようか】 8th day of the month, eight days

Readings

Japanese names:
な、 は、 はっ、 やち、 やつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ba1, ba2
Korean:
pal

Spanish

  • ocho
  • 8

Portuguese

  • Oito

French

  • huit
  • radical huit (no. 12)
8 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
8 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
66 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
41 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
577 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
10 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
18 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
19 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
10 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
10 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
8 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
151 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3644 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1859 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2536 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
8 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1450 Morohashi
3 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
369 New Nelson (John Haig)
8 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
8 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
116 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
4 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2062 2001 Kanji
2o0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-1 SKIP code
8000.0 Four corner code
1-40-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
516b Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
cloud
Kun:
くも-ぐも
On:
ウン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
1256 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 雲散霧消 【ウンサンムショウ】 vanishing like mist
  • 雲海 【ウンカイ】 sea of clouds
  • 青雲 【セイウン】 blue sky, erudition, detachment from the world, high rank
  • 星雲 【セイウン】 nebula, galaxy

Kun reading compounds

  • 雲 【くも】 cloud
  • 雲行き 【くもゆき】 weather, look of the sky, situation, turn of affairs, signs, way the wind is blowing
  • 白雲 【しらくも】 white clouds
  • 八重雲 【やえぐも】 layers of clouds

Readings

Japanese names:
き、 ずも、 のめ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yun2
Korean:
un

Spanish

  • nube

Portuguese

  • nuvem

French

  • nuage
47 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
83 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
78 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1124 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5046 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
478 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
997 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2027 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
636 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
646 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
844 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1860 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3447 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1774 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2415 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
430 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42235 Morohashi
2773 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6522 New Nelson (John Haig)
423 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
452 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
213 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3171 2001 Kanji
8d4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-4 SKIP code
1073.1 Four corner code
1-17-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96f2 Unicode hex code