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Vocabulary (12)

• 八つ時

  やつどき

  (approx.) two o'clock (am or pm, old time system)

• 八文字

  はちもんじ

  (in) the shape of the character hachi (eight)

• グーグル八分

  グーグルはちぶ

  (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

• 焼けのやんぱち

  やけのやんぱち

  (sense of) desperation

• 一一八番

  ひゃくじゅうはちばん

  118 (maritime emergency telephone number in Japan)

• 十八金

  じゅうはちきん

  18-carat gold

• 二十八星瓢虫

  にじゅうやほしてんとう

  28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)

• ３８度線

  さんじゅうはちどせん

  38th parallel (that demarcates North Korea and South Korea)

• 八専

  はっせん

  49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain)

• 八十八箇所

  はちじゅうはっかしょ

  88 temples (of, or modeled after those of, Shikoku)

• 四国八十八箇所

  しこくはちじゅうはっかしょ

  88 temples of Shikoku (holy spots related to Kobo Daishi)

• 川八つ目

  かわやつめ

  Arctic lamprey (Lethenteron camtschaticum)