八
bā
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The number eight, in counting and in figures. 八个人 is 'eight people', 八月 August, 第八 'eighth'. It is held to be the luckiest number: bā sounds like 发 fā, as in 发财 'to get rich', so phone numbers and car number plates with many eights are much sought after.
Số tám, dùng khi đếm và khi đọc các con số. 八个人 là tám người, 八月 là tháng tám, 第八 là “thứ tám”. Đây được coi là con số may mắn nhất vì bā đọc gần giống 发 fā trong 发财 (phát tài); số điện thoại, biển số xe có nhiều số 8 rất được ưa chuộng.
NumeralRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “八” mean?
The number eight, in counting and in figures. 八个人 is 'eight people', 八月 August, 第八 'eighth'. It is held to be the luckiest number: bā sounds like 发 fā, as in 发财 'to get rich', so phone numbers and car number plates with many eights are much sought after.
Is “八” formal or informal?
八 is generally neutral.