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八

CJK unified ideograph (U+516B)
Unicode Character Q3594936

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
Unicode character, sinogram, legacy Chinese character, kanji character[2][3][4]
More facts +18
CJKV variant character
捌[22]
Cangjie input
HO[23]
Catalog
Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters, Table of General Standard Chinese Characters, Basic Hanja for educational use, Table of hanja for personal names[9][10][11][12]
Catalog code
0009, 0285[7][8]
Different from
ハ, Kangxi radical 12 (⼋)[13][14]
Grade of kanji
grade 1 kyōiku kanji[20]
HTML entity
八, 八[17][18]
Hangul pronunciation
팔
Has kanji reading
ハチ, や, やつ, やっつ
Homoglyph
ハ[15]
Ideographic description sequence
八, ⿰, 丿, 乀
Radical
Kangxi radical 12 (⼋)[21]
Stroke count
2[19]
Unicode block
CJK Unified Ideographs[24]
Unicode character
八[6]
Unicode character name
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-516B
Unicode code point
516B[16]
Writing system
Chinese characters[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-516B en 八
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
012 - ba1 - eight.svg ↗
Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID
A00285
Digital Hanja Dictionary ID
656
GlyphWiki ID
u516b-j, u516b-g, u516b-t
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/121dvgrq
International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database ID
7519
Kanjipedia kanji ID
0005677700

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Summary

八 is an Unicode character[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Namoroka · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Radical → Kangxi radical 12 (⼋)
    GlyphWiki ID → u516b-j, u516b-g, u516b-t
    Different from → ハ, Kangxi radical 12 (⼋)
    Image → 012 - ba1 - eight.svg
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #54527: P5537 References from Unihan kHangul (101-1000): 516B 팔 | 516B 팔"
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