Word Meaning 八幡

はちまん hachiman

八幡 is read as はちまん (hachiman) and means Hachiman (God of War).

Meaning

English

Hachiman (God of War)
Hachiman shrine
certainly

Reading

Kana

はちまん

Romaji

hachiman

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 17 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

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八幡宮

はちまんぐう

Shrine of the God of War

八幡大学

やはただいがく

Yahata University

八幡の不知藪

やわたのやぶしらず

Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend)

八幡知らず

やわたしらず

labyrinth

八幡船

ばはんせん

Japanese pirate ship (of the Middle Ages)

八幡大菩薩

はちまんだいぼさつ

Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (title of Hachiman due to Shinto-Buddhist syncretism)

八幡神

はちまんじん

Hachiman (god of war)

南無八幡

なむはちまん

O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy

弓矢八幡

ゆみやはちまん

god of war

南無八幡大菩薩

なむはちまんだいぼさつ

O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy!

八

はち

eight

八

や