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
- 八倍体(八倍體) octoploid
- 忘八旦 turtle's egg (highly offensive when directed at sb)
- 八角形 an octagon
- 八风(八風) eight winds ; sentiments of the people
- 八仙 the eight immortals
- 八体(八體) the eight scripts ; the eight styles of writing
- 八十 eighty
- 八哥狗 pug (breed of dog)
- 第十八 eighteenth
- 八疸身面黄(八疸身面黃) eight types of jaundice with yellowing of body and face (TCM)
- 八十八 88
- 一九八一年 1981
- 炼丹八卦炉(煉丹八卦爐) eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art
- 白领八哥(白領八哥) collared myna (Acridotheres albocinctus)
- 亡八 cuckold
- 四邻八舍(四鄰八捨) the whole neighborhood
- 一九八四年 1984
- 丘八 soldier
- 十有八九 most likely; mostly; vast majority
- 胡诌八扯(胡謅八扯) to talk random nonsense; to say whatever comes into one's head
- 七零八落 chaotic ; broken and in disorder ; sparse
- 八腕目 Octopoda
- 四通八达(四通八達) roads open in all directions; openly accessible
- 八风穴(八風穴) eight wind points, name of a set of acupuncture points (EX-LE-10), four on each foot
- 八百 eight hundred
- 蓝枕八色鸫(藍枕八色鶇) blue-naped pitta (Hydrornis nipalensis)
- 正经八百(正經八百) very serious; solemn
- 正儿八板(正兒八板) earnest; authentic
- 八路军(八路軍) Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War
- 半斤八两(半斤八兩) not much to choose between the two; tweedledum and tweedledee
- 一九六八年 1968
- 二八 sixteen
- 秦书八体(秦書八體) eight Qin scripts
- 二〇一八年 2018
- 栗头八色鸫(栗頭八色鶇) rusty-naped pitta (Hydrornis oatesi)
- 一九二八年 1928
- 批八字 to have one's fortune read
Also contained in
八位元 、 八大龙王 、 八股 、 七花八裂 、 八龙王 、 八国集团 、 八卦山 、 八大曼拏罗经 、 八月之光 、 中共八大元老 、 因明八义 、 沙里八丹 、 八都马 、 八思巴
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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
- 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
- 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
- 经八 (經八) 經八年 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 7