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Chinese symbol for “eighty”

八十
bā shí
eighty; 80

The closest CC-CEDICT match for eighty is 八十 (bā shí), defined as: eighty; 80.

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Characters and stroke order

八 bā
eight; all around, all sides
radical 12 ⼋ · 2 strokes
十 shí
ten, tenth; complete; perfect
radical 24 ⼗ · 2 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 八十.

WordPinyinMeaning
十八shí bāeighteen; 18
八卦bā guàthe eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经 (Yì jīng); gossip
胡说八道 (胡說八道)hú shuō bā dàoto talk rubbish
八成bā chéngeighty percent; most probably
乱七八糟 (亂七八糟)luàn qī bā zāo(idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled
十分shí fēnvery; completely
十五shí wǔfifteen; 15
十九shí jiǔnineteen; 19

See also: Japanese symbol for “eighty”.

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.