The Chinese Radical: 八


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Meaning
eight    八

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
to divide, to separate, to distinguish, part, fraction
fēn, fèn
Top: eight , bottom: sword - Better: Understand the “eight ” as a part that is just being smashed by the sword.
The sword strikes the one part that two fragments , ⧹ blast away when: dividing.
JLPT HSK 1
small, tiny, few, young
xiǎo

A person with the arms close to the body appears: small.
JLPT HSK 1
eight, 8


Side view of two hands with the four fingers (without thumb) streched which means eight in total.
JLPT HSK 1
six, 6
liù

One plus two makes three. With a cut it is divided, which provides six parts.
JLPT HSK 2
public, collectively owned, common, male (animal)
gōng
Eight , nose (a nose in side view)
Eight noses stand for the public.
JLPT HSK 3
just one of a several, unique, merely, only
zhī, zhǐ
Image of a person consisting only of a mouth and two legs
This person has a huge mouth, which is only one and unique.
JLPT HSK 4
tool, device, equipment, instrument, to possess

An eye and a table
The eye sees on the table: a tool.
JLPT HSK 5
soldiers, an army, military
bīng
Top: hill (An axe in the ground as a burial object in the [burial] mound/hill.), below: eight
At the hill are eight soldiers.
JLPT HSK 6
beast, animal, bestial, ferocious
shòu
From top: out (here: widely), rice field , one mouth
Widely open like a rice field is one mouth of the beast.
JLPT HSK 6
sound of trumpet, horn or sharp noise (gunfire etc)

Left: mouth , right: eight
From a "mouth" that widens [towards the lower end] like an eight comes the "sound of a trumpet".
JLPT HSK 6
to lie on one's stomach, to lean forward

Left: foot (knee cap and footprint ), right: eight (here: two legs)
When the feet are aside to the legs, you are lying on the stomach.
JLPT HSK 6
friendly, harmonious, amicable, peaceful relations

Left: eye , right: 坴 (eight , 2 x land )
The view on all that land is friendly and harmonious.
JLPT HSK 6
to cling to, hold on to, push aside, strip off, rake up
bā, pá
Left: hand , right: eight , (here variant of: grab/catch 抓 [The hand as a claw for: grabbing or arresting]
The hand is claw-like for: clinging or holding.
JLPT no HSK
(exclamation particle in old Chinese)


"Eight seaweeds " as exclamation
JLPT no HSK
to hope, wish, (abbr. for Hebei 河北)

Top: north (2 people sit back-to-back because it is cold in: the north.), bottom: differ, extraordinary (Put a rice paddy together (with other paddies) and you will see how much they differ.)
Also in the north, our fields shall be extraordinary: This is what we hope.
JLPT no HSK
crossroads, thoroughfare
kuí
Left: movement , right: 坴 (2x earth , in the middle: two ways )
For the movement on two ways between twice 'earths' [hills?], there is: a crossing.

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