Search results for "八" - New World Encyclopedia

hachi, 八, means "eight," here eight sun, or tenths, of a shaku. Thus, "shaku-hachi" means "one foot eight" (almost 55 centimeters), the standard length of a shakuhachi. Other shakuhachi ...

* [http://ef.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/ccw/02/tan08.htm 唐 書 卷 八 十 六 列 傳 第 十 一] (Book of Tang). * [http://ef.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/ccw/02/ntan14.htm 唐書　卷八六至一百] (New Book of Tang), vol. 96 ...

| Chinese numeral || 八，捌 |- | Devanāgarī || ८ |- | Hebrew || ח (Het) |- | Khmer || ៨ ... zh-Hani|八 ; accounting zh-Hani|捌 ; pinyin bā) is considered a lucky number in Asian culture because ...