IDENTITY
八bāeight
HSK 1Top 550
CORE MEANING
eight
- Part of speech
- numeral
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.eightHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 八eight radical (bā)
- strokes
- 2
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- 八
USAGE
Common words
八月bāyuèAugust
十八shíbāeighteen
Graded examples
学校八点上课。Xuéxiào bā diǎn shàngkè.HSK1
School starts at eight.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Two strokes splitting apart — dividing, hence eight. (Old: to split.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #550
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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