Word Meaning 八分

はっぷん happun

八分 is read as はっぷん (happun) and means eight minutes.

Meaning

English

  1. eight minutes
  2. triangular-swept clerical script (clerical script whose horizontal lines end in a noticeable triangular tail)

Reading

Kana

はっぷん

Romaji

happun

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 6 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 69346 Priority K

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

八九分

はっくぶ

nearly

八分目

はちぶめ

eight-tenths

目八分

めはちぶん

about eight-tenths full

Google八分

ぐーぐるはちぶ

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

八分音符

はちぶおんぷ

8th note

八分儀

はちぶんぎ

octant (instrument)

八進細分記号

はちしんさいぶんきごう

octave device

村八分

むらはちぶ

complete ostracism of a household (the harshest punishment in Edo-period village law)

腹八分

はらはちぶ

eating moderately

腹八分目

はらはちぶんめ

being moderate in eating

腹八分目に医者いらず

はらはちぶんめにいしゃいらず

eating moderately keeps the doctor away

八百屋

やおや

greengrocer

Example Sentences

2

そのみせはえきからはっぷんです。

That shop is eight minutes from the station.

We never repent having eaten too little.