Eight in Chinese (Mandarin): 八 (bā)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 八

• 八

  Eight. Two strokes moving apart.

  2 strokes

First tone. 八 sounds like 发 (fā, to get rich), so eight is the luckiest number in China.

More examples with 八

• 我八岁了。

  我八歲了。

  Wǒ bā suì le.

  I am eight years old.

• 八点我们去上学。

  八點我們去上學。

  Bā diǎn wǒmen qù shàngxué.

  We go to school at eight.

How to write 八 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.