[猪八戒 / 豬八戒, Zhū Bā jiè, ㄓㄨ ㄅㄚ ㄐㄧㄝˋ]Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muck-rake; Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation#28502[Add to Longdo]
[七上八下, qī shàng bā xià, ㄑㄧ ㄕㄤˋ ㄅㄚ ㄒㄧㄚˋ]lit. seven up, eight down (成语 saw); unsettled state of mind; perturbed; at sixes and sevens#50080[Add to Longdo]
[九一八事变 / 九一八事變, jiǔ yī bā shì biàn, ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄧ ㄅㄚ ㄕˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ]the Mukden or Manchurian railway incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria; also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳條溝事變|柳条沟事变#75216[Add to Longdo]
[八卦阵 / 八卦陣, bā guà zhèn, ㄅㄚ ㄍㄨㄚˋ ㄓㄣˋ]lit. battle plan based on the eight trigrams (in legend); fig. a clever plan; a fiendishly complicated predicament#84018[Add to Longdo]
[おかめはちもく, okamehachimoku](n) (1) bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation; (exp) (2) onlookers see more of the game than the players do; lit[Add to Longdo]
[かんとうじゅうはちだんりん, kantoujuuhachidanrin](n) (See 浄土宗, 関東) eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region)[Add to Longdo]
[かんとうはっしゅう, kantouhasshuu](n) (See 関八州) eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke & Shimotsuke)[Add to Longdo]
[はたもとはちまんき, hatamotohachimanki](n) (arch) (See 旗本・はたもと) the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals[Add to Longdo]
[おにもじゅうはちばんちゃもでばな, onimojuuhachibanchamodebana](exp) (See 番茶も出花) just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth[Add to Longdo]
[やかましい(喧しい;八釜しい)(P);かしましい(姦しい;囂しい);かしがましい(囂しい);かまびすしい(喧しい;囂しい), yakamashii ( kamabisushi i ; hachi kama shii )(P); kashimashii ( kashimashi i ; gou](adj-i) (1) (uk) (八釜しい is an ateji created by 夏目漱石) noisy; boisterous; (2) (やかましい only) strict; faultfinding; carping; fussy; (P)[Add to Longdo]
[ごじはっきょう, gojihakkyou](n) { Buddh } (See 五時教) division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five time periods and eight categories (theory of the Tendai sect)[Add to Longdo]
[すなやつめ;スナヤツメ, sunayatsume ; sunayatsume](n) (uk) Far Eastern brook lamprey (Lethenteron reissneri); sand lamprey (species found in the Northwest Pacific)[Add to Longdo]
[しくはっく, shikuhakku](n, vs) (1) being in dire distress; being hard put to it; (2) { Buddh } (See 四苦, 八苦) the four and eight kinds of suffering[Add to Longdo]
[ななころびやおき(七転び八起き;七転八起);しちてんはっき(七転八起;七顛八起), nanakorobiyaoki ( shichi korobi yaoki ki ; shichi ten yaoki ); shichitenhakki ( shi](n) the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life; always rising after a fall or repeated failures[Add to Longdo]