Chinese symbol for “anise”
八角
bā jiǎo
anise; star anise; aniseed; octagonal
The closest CC-CEDICT match for anise is 八角 (bā jiǎo), defined as: anise; star anise; aniseed; octagonal; Fructus Anisi stellati.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “anise”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 八角.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 十八 | shí bā | eighteen; 18 |
| 八卦 | bā guà | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经 (Yì jīng); gossip |
| 胡说八道 (胡說八道) | hú shuō bā dào | to talk rubbish |
| 八成 | bā chéng | eighty percent; most probably |
| 乱七八糟 (亂七八糟) | luàn qī bā zāo | (idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled |
| 八十 | bā shí | eighty; 80 |
| 角色 | jué sè | role; part (in a play or movie etc); also pr. [jiao3se4] |
| 角度 | jiǎo dù | angle; (fig.) point of view |
See also: Japanese symbol for “anise”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.