bā
八
eight
HSK 2.0 · 1
HSK 3.0 · 1
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Taught in your lessons 课程
购物与数字Lesson 8 · Shopping & Numbers
日常生活Lesson 9 · Daily Routines
我的一天Lesson 14 · My Day
买东西Lesson 19 · Going Shopping
你几岁HSK 3.0 · Lesson 2 · Numbers and Age
vocab
今天几号HSK 3.0 · Lesson 4 · What's the Date?
现在几点HSK 3.0 · Lesson 5 · What Time Is It?
在学校HSK 3.0 · Lesson 7 · At School
我的一天HSK 3.0 · Lesson 11 · My Day
Words with 八
八卦 bā guà
the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经; gossip
HSK 7–9
乱七八糟 luàn qī bā zāo
(idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled
HSK 7–9
四面八方 sì miàn bā fāng
in all directions; all around
HSK 7–9
五花八门 wǔ huā bā mén
myriad; all kinds of
HSK 7–9
七嘴八舌 qī zuǐ bā shé
lively discussion with everybody talking at once
HSK 7–9
横七竖八 héng qī shù bā
in disorder; at sixes and sevens (idiom)
HSK 7–9
Examples from your lessons
- 好，一百八十块，怎么样？ OK, 180 yuan, how about that? Lesson 8
- 八点上课。我先吃早饭，然后去学校。 Class starts at 8. I eat breakfast first, then go to school. Lesson 9
- 八点开始上课，我七点就到学校了。 Class starts at eight; I already got to school at seven. Lesson 14
- 跑一个小时。八点开始上班。 One hour. I start work at eight. Lesson 14
- 两千八百元。 2,800 yuan. Lesson 19
- 我的手机号是一三九零八六七五四二一。 My mobile number is 139 0867 5421. Lesson 102
Character facts
- Radical
- 八
- Unicode
- U+516B
Ideographic: Two bent lines meaning "to divide"