eight, eight radical (no. 12)
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
学校の時から。だいたい八年くらい。
Gakkou no toki kara. Daitai hachinen kurai.
Since school. About eight years, more or less.
いいですね、今日は鶏肉のお弁当がセール中で、三百八十円なんです。
Ii desu ne, kyou wa toriniku no obentou ga seeruchuu de, sanbyaku hachijuu-en nan desu.
Great, today the chicken bentos are on sale, they're three hundred and eighty yen.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0