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

surname Su

= + + 丿 + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) wants to purge (肃) the space station from counter-revolutionary elements (肃). In the bathroom (Ø4) she uses a crayon (肀) to cross out everything that will be forbidden in the future: eight balls (八) (because she sucks at billiards) as well as bananas (丿) and dinosaur bones (丨) (because they both are inedible, at least for her).
velvetleaf (Abutilon avicennae), plant of the jute family / bright

= + + : Inside of the engine, Zeus is looking for the velvetleaf plant. He even has a map where it should be, but he can't find a single one. Frustrated he sits down on these funny round black stones, eats a mandarin and studies the map again. He doesn't realize that the black rocks are eight-balls, and that they have crushed the unhappy velvetleaf plants.

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a very unhappy-looking velvetleaf plant.
canon / law / standard work of scholarship / literary quotation or allusion / ceremony / to be in charge of / to mortgage or pawn

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a head cannon. Dorothy Gale (di) is playing the harp (曲) inside the anthill's living room (an3) while shooting an eight ball (八) from her head cannon (典).
common / general / to share / together / total / altogether / abbr. for 共產黨|共产党[Gong4 chan3 dang3], Communist party

= + : A giant eight-ball is blocking the well in the engine's bathroom. Joining forces together with the communist, Gitta Giraffe and he are able to push the eight-ball off and make the well available to the public again.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the communist.
benefit / profit / advantage / beneficial / to increase / to add / all the more

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: Alpinia oxyphylla, a type of ginger.

The mean crocodile (丷) is visiting Maud Younger (y) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and asks for her help. Somehow he lost all his energy. Maud knows what to do and pulls out a bit of Alpinia oxyphylla (益), an eight ball (八), a flute (一), and a shallow bowl (皿). She crushes the eight ball and the ginger in the bowl with her flute and while doing so, she tells the crocodile that this will be the ingredients for a tea which will be very beneficial (益) to him. It will not only restore his vigor, but also increase his intellect.
surname Yi

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: Alpinia oxyphylla, a type of ginger.

The mean crocodile (丷) is visiting Maud Younger (y) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and asks for her help. Somehow he lost all his energy. Maud knows what to do and pulls out a bit of Alpinia oxyphylla (益), an eight ball (八), a flute (一), and a shallow bowl (皿). She crushes the eight ball and the ginger in the bowl with her flute and while doing so, she tells the crocodile that this will be the ingredients for a tea which will be very beneficial (益) to him. It will not only restore his vigor, but also increase his intellect.
Component form of Kangxi radical 122, 网 (net)

= + : As a variant of the "net" radical, let's say the mnemonic symbol for this one is a butterfly net. Imagine a butterfly net catching eight-balls and prevent the eight-balls from escaping by putting a cooking top on the ring of the net.
3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the Tiger / ancient Chinese compass point: 60°

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: a plush tiger.

Maud Younger (y) and her plush tiger (寅) just graduated. Wearing their graduation hats (宀) they come out of the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) where they had to study for years and celebrate their new freedom by drinking cuba libres (由). They also are overjoyed that finally they can spend their time just having fun: the plush tiger uses a flute (一) as a bat to shoot an eightball (八) into Maud's direction, who catches it using her graduation cap as baseball glove.
plow

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a big modern plow used to free the streets from snow.

Sir Lancelot (l) is clearing the Eiffel Tower (ei3) from snow using his plow (耒). There are sometimes eight balls (八) hidden under the snow which he collects in a golden cage (丰) so as not to damage his plow.
to dawdle / the name of the father of the Emperor Yao

= + + : Li Qingzhao (li) and the father of emperor Yao (夌) are racing through engine's entrance ((e)ng2). During their race they have to wear high heels (夂) and walk over mud (土) and eight-balls (八).
archaic variant of 遂[sui4]

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