八

beautiful well-proportioned woman (body 8 times longer than head)

八つ子 only

octuplet

eight-year-old child

Food, cooking

babaocai; eight-treasure vegetables

the whole enormous extent of Edo; from one side of Edo to the other

Yata no Kagami (the eight-span mirror; one of the Imperial regalia)

はちまんしせん／八万四千 only; Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'; Buddhism

many

Numeric

84,000

Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (title of Hachiman due to Shinto-Buddhist syncretism)

fences within fences

fatsi (Fatsia japonica); paperplant; Japanese aralia

Buddhism

the eight precepts (the five precepts with the addition of prohibitions against lying in a luxurious bed, self-decoration, song and dance, and eating after noon)

Buddhism

the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)

bajiquan (Chinese martial art)

the 8 districts of feudal Japan

to find a solution (after struggle)

Music

8th note; eighth note; quaver

the eight early Japanese Buddhist sects

Historical term; Abbreviation

the eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian period

Hachiman (god of war)

Buddhism

The Eight Greater Hells

Archaic

large jewel; string of jewels

Yasakani no Magatama (the grand jewel or string of jewels; one of the three Imperial regalia)

8000 years; thousands of years; eternity

Food, cooking

hatcho miso; dark miso variety produced in Aichi Prefecture

Eighth Route Army; 18th Army Group of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China

Abbreviation; Buddhism

the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)

full of holes (e.g. argument); vulnerable to any kind of attack (or criticism, etc.)