eight

to talk rubbish

(idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled

the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; gossip; gossipy

August; eighth month (of the lunar year)

eighteen; 18

International Women's Day 婦女節|妇女节[Fu4 nu:3 jie2], 8th March; foolish; stupid

eighty percent; most probably; most likely

softshell turtle; cuckold; (old) male owner of a brothel

eighty; 80

ugly person

meddling woman; nosy parker (Cantonese)

(idiom) all directions; all around

the character 8 or 八; birthdate characters used in fortune-telling

see 豬八戒|猪八戒[Zhu1 Ba1 jie4]

the eight precepts (Buddhism)

most likely; mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10); vast majority

lively discussion with everybody talking at once

ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹); the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories; music

TEM-8 or Test for English Majors-Band 8, highest level proficiency test for English major students in PRC (abbr. for 英語專業八級考試|英语专业八级考试[Ying1 yu3 Zhuan1 ye4 Ba1 ji2 Kao3 shi4])

soldier (from the two components of the 兵 character) (derog.)

16; sixteen

variant of 王八[wang2 ba1]

to maintain an 8% annual growth rate of the GDP (PRC policy)

the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology)

eight surges (a group of eight acupoints in Chinese acupuncture, namely PC-9, TB-1, HT-9 and LV-3, bilaterally)

(bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)

see 八宿縣|八宿县[Ba1 su4 Xian4]

octave

Barkhor, pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet

octavo

(sports) top eight; quarterfinals

the eight points of the compass; all directions

Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty 後金|后金[Hou4 Jin1] from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty

80 years; one's eighties; 80 days

see 八步區|八步区[Ba1 bu4 Qu1]

eight methods of treatment (TCM)

eight (types of) jaundices (TCM)

(TCM) the eight principal syndromes (used to differentiate pathological conditions): yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, hypofunction and hyperfunction

Bamay in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县[Dao4 fu2 xian4], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan

"the Eight Great Eminent Officials" of the CCP, abbr. for 八大元老[Ba1 Da4 Yuan2 lao3]

an essay in eight parts; stereotyped writing

the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)

anise; star anise; aniseed; octagonal; Fructus Anisi stellati

see 八風穴|八风穴[ba1 feng1 xue2]

(slang) see 雞巴|鸡巴[ji1 ba5]

shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute)

see 王八[wang2 ba1]

Ba Jia Jiang, the eight generals that guard the godly realm in Taiwanese folklore, represented by troupes of dancers in temple processions; (slang) lowlife gangster or young hoodlum, often written as "8+9", [ba1 jia1 jiu3]