八 bā
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bā
number
eight
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (Unihan '八') -
bā
noun
Kangxi radical 12
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: Eight (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
bā
ordinal
eighth
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
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bā
adjective
all around; all sides
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '八')
Contained in
- 八分音符 quaver; eighth note
- 一九八二年 1982
- 第十八 eighteenth
- 八十四 84
- 八十天环游地球(八十天環遊地球) Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
- 七手八脚(七手八腳) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
- 八倍体(八倍體) octoploid
- 七零八散 chaotic
- 八部 name of Kangxi radical 12
- 蓝八色鸫(藍八色鶇) blue pitta (Hydrornis cyaneus)
- 八开(八開) octavo
- 八级风(八級風) force 8 wind; fresh gale
- 八爪鱼(八爪魚) octopus
- 七上八下 at sixes and sevens; perturbed state of mind; in a mess
- 半斤八两(半斤八兩) not much to choose between the two; tweedledum and tweedledee
- 外八字脚(外八字腳) splayed feet
- 八会穴(八會穴) the eight influential points (acupuncture)
- 七嘴八张(七嘴八張) all talking at once
- 乱七八糟(亂七八糟) in sevens and eights; chaotic; in disorder
- 八级工资制(八級工資制) eight grade wage scale (system)
- 一九八九年 1989
- 千儿八百(千兒八百) one thousand or almost one thousand
- 八极拳(八極拳) Ba Ji Quan; Eight Extremes Fist
- 王八蛋 bastard; son of a bitch
- 八门(八門) eight gates
- 八进制(八進制) octal
- 八辈子(八輩子) (fig.) a long time
- 八二丹 eight-to-two powder
- 八宝粥(八寶粥) rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc
- 八仙桌 old-fashioned square table to seat eight people
- 万儿八千(萬兒八千) ten thousand or almost ten thousand
- 二〇一八年 2018
- 百儿八十(百兒八十) about a hundred; a hundred or so
- 一九〇八年 1908
- 茄二十八星瓢虫(茄二十八星瓢蟲) 28-spotted ladybird; hadda beetle; Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata
- 八抬大轿(八抬大轎) palanquin with eight carriers; (fig.) lavish treatment
- 横七竖八(橫七豎八) in disorder; at sixes and sevens
- 四方八面 four directions and eight sides; everywhere
- 八分书(八分書) bafen
- 八音盒 musical box
- 八腕目 Octopoda
- 八段锦(八段錦) eight pieces of brocade, a set of qigong exercises with assumed medical benefits
- 一九四八年 1948
- 八卦拳 baguazhang
- 绿胸八色鸫(綠胸八色鶇) hooded pitta (Pitta sordida)
- 八卦掌 baguazhang
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- 卷四十四 志第二十四: 職官三 Volume 44 Treatises 24: Government Service 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 213
- 《十二諸侯年表》 Yearly Chronicle of the Feudal Lords Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 197
- 卷三十三 志第九 曆三 Volume 33 Treatises 9: Calendar 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 171
- 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 157
- 卷四十八 志第三十八 百官三 Volume 48 Treatises 43: Official Posts 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 116
- 卷三十九 志第十九: 地理二 Volume 39 Treatises 19: Geography 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 115
- 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 103
- 卷五十八 虞傅蓋臧列傳 Volume 58: Biographies of Yu, Fu, Gai, Zang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 89
- 第二十二 郡國四 青州 荊州 揚州 Volume 112: Commanderies and States Part Three Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 88
- 卷三十八 志第十八: 地理一 Volume 38 Treatises 18: Geography 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 87
Collocations
- 八年 (八年) 八年 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 無逸 Zhou Shu - Against Luxurious Ease — count: 119
- 八句 (八句) 章八句 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧漢廣 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Han Guang — count: 51
- 八人 (八人) 莊公之子猶有八人 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 48
- 章八 (章八) 章八句 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧漢廣 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Han Guang — count: 44
- 八章 (八章) 八章 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧豳‧七月 Lessons from the states - Odes of Cao - Qi Yue — count: 25
- 八曰 (八曰) 次八曰念用庶徵 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — count: 13
- 八筭 (八筭) 坐實八筭于中 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 鄉射禮 第五 5. Rites of the district archery meet — count: 13
- 下士八 (下士八) 下士八人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 10
- 实八 (實八) 坐實八筭于中 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 鄉射禮 第五 5. Rites of the district archery meet — count: 8
- 传八 (傳八) 傳八年 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 7