the number eight

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Example Sentences

Real-world example sentences demonstrating how is used in context
1
jīn
nián
shí
suì
le

He is eighteen years old this year.

2
yuè
shì
nián
zhōng
zuì
de
yuè
fèn

August is the hottest month of the year.

3
men
míng
tiān
zǎo
shàng
diǎn
jiàn
miàn

We will meet at eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

4
hái
zi
men
zài
jiào
shì
zuǐ
shé
shuō
huà

The children are talking all at once in the classroom.

5
huì
shàng
jiā
zuǐ
shé
tǎo
lùn
hěn
nán
tīng
qīng
shuí
zài
shuō
shén
me

During the meeting, everyone was talking all at once, making it hard to hear who was saying what.

6
xīn
wén
shè
jiāo
méi
shàng
zuǐ
shé
zhǒng
guān
diǎn
céng
chū
qióng

As soon as the news was released, social media erupted with everyone talking at once, and various opinions emerged one after another.

7
de
fáng
jiān
luàn
zāo

My room is in a mess.

8
de
huà
luàn
zāo
men
zhī
dào
gāi
zěn
me
bàn

His plan is all over the place, and we don't know what to do.

9
zhè
běn
shū
de
nèi
róng
luàn
zāo
hěn
nán
jiě

The content of this book is chaotic and hard to understand.

10
chāo
shì
de
dōng
西
huā
mén

The things in the supermarket are diverse and varied.

Information

Traditional
Radical
Strokes2
StructureSingle Body
Frequency#41
Zhuyinㄅㄚ
Components
UnicodeU+516B
CangjieHO
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Cultural note

Traditional Chinese culture often connects characters and names with the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and Yin–Yang, a system also used to describe personality tendencies.

Learn how the Five Elements describe personality