MEANING/意义
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character 8; birth date characters used in fortune-tellingType noun/名词
八字
EXAMPLES/列句
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八字没一撇
Not even the first stroke of the character is in sight (means nothing tangible is yet in sight)
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”八“字先写撇后写捺。
To write the character “ba (eight) “，one should first write the left-falling stroke Pie and then the right-falling stroke Na.
COMBINATIONS/组合
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八字胡
moustache
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生辰八字
date of birth and eight characters of a horoscope
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八字还没一撇
things are not even starting to take shape yet; there is no sign of anything happening yet.
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八字还没一撇儿
(used in north China) things are not even starting to take shape yet; there is no sign of anything happening yet.
