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• eight-legged essay (classical Chinese style of essay writing) - abbreviation ➜ 八股文

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• eight parts of speech (in traditional English grammar, etc.) - obscure term - Linguistics term

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• the eight ministries (under the Grand Council of State of the ritsuryo system) ➜ 太政官

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• the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha) - Buddhism term

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• eight trigrams; divination signs
• divination; fortune-telling

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• the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains - four character idiom - Buddhism term
• a series of disasters

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• eight trigrams palm; ba gua zhang; pa kua chang - Martial Arts term

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• eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness) - Buddhism term

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• eight million

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• eight ata (approx. 144 cm) - archaism ➜ 咫
• large; long - usu. やた

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• the eight directions; the whole land; the whole world

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• eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology)

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• single-tiered gate with eight secondary pillars supporting the four main central pillars

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• eight-holed arrow whistle - obscure term ➜ 鏑

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• kanji "eight" radical at top

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• eight-tenths
• casting someone out
• type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up eight-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg ➜ 鳶ズボン

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• soba made with two parts udon flour to eight parts soba flour

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• eight great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Mezu, Munosho, Trilokavijaya, Ucchusma, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka) - Buddhism term ➜ 五大明王

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• eight faces; all sides

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• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - Buddhism term

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• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - Buddhism term

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• three and eight
• Arisaka Type 38 rifle - abbreviation ➜ 三八式歩兵銃

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• eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke & Shimotsuke) - abbreviation ➜ 関東八州

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• distance of eight sun (approx. 24 cm)
• dish or tray of this size (esp. used in kaiseki cuisine to serve several kinds of delicacies); food served in such a dish
• var. of thick, traditional Japanese paper

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• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 八部衆