Chinese symbol for “splayed”
八字形
bā zì xíng
shape resembling the character 八 or 8; V-shape; splayed; figure of eight
The closest CC-CEDICT match for splayed is 八字形 (bā zì xíng), defined as: shape resembling the character 八 or 8; V-shape; splayed; figure of eight.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 八字形.
| 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 |
| 名字 | míng zi | name (of a person or thing) |
| 数字 (數字) | shù zì | numeral; digit |
| 形成 | xíng chéng | to form; to take shape |
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.