eight; 8

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: an eight-ball.

Beelzebub (b-) wants to find new ways to lure people into playing pool billiard. To this end he is meditating on top of an eight-ball (八) in front of the Ashram (a1). He uses a finger (㇏) and a banana (丿) as incense to create the right atmosphere.

八 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
Right-falling stroke

Mnemonic symbol: this one looks like a finger.

Napoleon (n) is giving you the finger (㇏) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).

Characters with 八 as component

to lie on one's stomach / to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc) / (Tw) percent

= + : Pinocchio (p) is getting hurt by something in his cowboy boot (⻊), so he has to lean forward (趴) to take it off and empty it. Indeed an eight-ball (八) falls out of the cowboy boot as Pinocchio flips it upside-down.
father

= + : Father Time. Father Time is trying to cut an eight ball with pliers. Besides, he looks like he has just bitten in a lemon.
six / 6

= + : 666 is the number of the Beast, so I'll represent 六 in other character's mnemonics as the Beast. Li Qingzhao is balancing a beret on an eight ball in the outhouse's bathroom, but suddenly the Beast appears and blasts it all.
cave / cavity / hole / acupuncture point / Taiwan pr. [xue4]

= + : Xu Xian presents his newest piece of art: Cave paintings painted on a gigantic eight-ball. Somehow he managed to set it up inside the elevators entrance. For his great artistic achievement, he gained a honorary doctor, and proudly wears his hard earned graduation cap.
to do / to manage / to handle / to go about / to run / to set up / to deal with

= + : Beelzebub wants to start a business (开办) in the anthill's bathroom. He sets up a vending machine which, upon the push of a power button, sells eight-balls.
(bound form) omen / to foretell / million; mega- / (Tw) trillion; tera- / (old) billion

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a vulture, as the ancient Greek observed vultures and deducted omens from their behavior.

James II of England (zh) wants to know whether his coronation and his proposed eight-year plan is under a good omen (兆) and watches a vulture (兆) inside of the aorta's bathroom (ao4). In fact the vulture is ridden by Sun Wukong (儿) who is fighting a mean crocodile (丷) by throwing eight-balls (八) at it. The crocodile easily smashes the eight-balls with its large jaw. James II of England deduces that this is not a very good omen.
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)

= + : Gitta Giraffe has to deliver 100 eight balls to engine driving a magic bus. She is driving in front of the engine and because the load is so heavy, she is driving very slowly. Additionally, she tried to decrease the wind resistance by installing a large fake nose at the front of the bus.

= + : Mnemonic symbol from 公交车: a (magic) bus.
foolish

= + + + + + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) got a job as tester for pliers (乂), and she got a whole box (囗) of pliers (乂) delivered into the ashram (a3) a few days ago. She had to test the pliers on eight-balls (八), crushing them. But one day she found that Sherlock Holmes (sh) tried to steal her high heels (夂). Rosa was furious! She was so furious that Sherlock Holmes would do anything to calm her down. Since then he has ever been testing the pliers, while Rosa makes herself comfortable on a big, soft petal leaf (丶) wearing her high heels and overseeing the work done. Sherlock asks himself again and again how he could have been so foolish (傻).
beast / animal / beastly / bestial

= + + 𠮛 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) and the mean crocodile (丷) heard that there is a terrible beast (兽) in the outhouse and so they set up a trap in the bathroom (ou4). They dug a deep hole which they covered with a scroll (𠮛) on which they put a field (田) for the camouflage. Now they're waiting for the beast to fall into their trap.
to peel / to skin / to tear / to pull down / to cling to (sth on which one is climbing) / to dig

= + : Beelzebub (b) is clinging (扒) onto his very precious eight-ball (八) in front of the ashram (a1) with a toy claw (扌).
to rake up / to steal / to braise / to crawl

= + : Just as he enters the ashram's kitchen (a2) someone steals (扒) an eight-ball (八) from Pinocchio's (p) pocket using a toy claw (扌).

Words with 八

lively discussion with everybody talking at once
at sixes and sevens / perturbed state of mind / in a mess
see 七上八下[qi1 shang4 ba1 xia4]
see 七嘴八舌[qi1 zui3 ba1 she2]
(idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
misshapen / crooked / uneven (idiom)
lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom) / fig. greatly reduced / substantially scaled back
assembled at random / a motley collection
Shanghai Incident of 28th January 1932, Chinese uprising against Japanese quarters of Shanghai

Sentences with 八

wǒ
men
dà
wáng
zǎo
fe̅i
chu̅
shí
wàn
ba̅
qia̅n
lǐ
le