Word Meaning 八十八夜

はちじゅうはちや hachijuuhachiya

八十八夜 is read as はちじゅうはちや (hachijuuhachiya) and means eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring.

Meaning

English

eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring

Reading

Kana

はちじゅうはちや

Romaji

hachijuuhachiya

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 14 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 92178 Priority O

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

八十日目

やっとかめ

a long time (since the last time)

八十の手習い

はちじゅうのてならい

you're never too old to learn

二十三夜

にじゅうさんや

23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month)

十二夜

じゅうにや

Twelfth Night

十日夜

とおかや

Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

十三夜

じゅうさんや

13th day (of the moon)

十五夜

じゅうごや

night of the full moon

十六夜

いざよい

sixteen-day-old moon

十夜

じゅうや

ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar)

八十

やそ

eighty

八十八箇所

はちじゅうはっかしょ

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

八十島

やそしま

many islands