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

eight minutes
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

その店は駅から八分です。

そのみせはえきからはっぷんです。

That shop is eight minutes from the station.

食事は腹八分にすべし。

We never repent having eaten too little.