捌

捌 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手口尸弓 (QRSN), four-corner 5200₀, composition ⿰扌别 or ⿰扌別)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 433, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12141
• Dae Jaweon: page 783, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1883, character 5
• Unihan data for U+634C

Historical forms of the character 捌
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *preːd, *praːd): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 別 (OC *pred, *bred).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-rjat (“eight”).

捌

1. (financial) alternative form of 八 (bā, “eight”)

In Min Nan numbers, the vernacular (白) pronunciation is the more common pronunciation, while the literary (文) reading is used for reading numbers out loud, such as in phone numbers. Please note that this usage is similar to the usage of the variant 幺 for the numeral 一 in Mandarin.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brat (“cut apart, cut open”). Cognate to 別.

捌

1. alternative form of 朳 (bā, “toothless rake”)
2. alternative form of 扒 (“to break open, split open”)
3. to break
4. sound of breaking
5. a surname

Min dialectal word for "to know".

Austroasiatic substrate influence (Norman and Mei, 1976); may be related to 別 (“to split; to differentiate”). Cognate with Vietnamese biết (“to know”), Muong mắt (“to know”), Proto-Bahnaric *băt (“to remember, to know”), Proto-Hmong-Mien *pei (“to know”) (White Hmong paub (“to know, to understand”)).

Many variant written forms exist, but 捌 is recommended in the Taiwanese Hokkien Recommended Characters lists (《臺灣閩南語推薦用字》) published by Taiwan's Ministry of Education.

捌

1. (Min) to know; to recognise; to be familiar with

   捌字   ―  báik-cê /   ―  to know how to read

   𣍐捌字／𫧃捌字   ―  mâ̤-báik-cê /   ―  do not know how to read

2. (Min) to know (somebody)

   伓捌   ―  n̂g-báik /   ―  to not know (someone)

3. (Hainanese) to know how to (do something)
4. (Eastern Min, Hokkien, Teochew) already; previously

   捌曾   ―  báik-cèng /   ―  a term denoting past tense

   捌做過／捌做过   ―  bat chò--kòe   ―  to have done something already

   • 1886, Lim Hiong Seng, Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press, page 44:

     我昔不識來此處 Uá tsá m̄-pat lâi--chié

     我早唔捌來照
     我早唔捌来照

     ua² za² m⁶ bag⁴ lai⁵ ziê³

     I have never been here before.

• (to know; to recognise):

• (to know (somebody)):

• (to know how):

• “捌”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019) “2078 认得（这个人我~）”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 488.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. (financial, archaic) alternative form of 八 (“eight”)

• On (unclassified): はつ (hatsu)、はち (hachi)、べつ (betsu)
• Kun: さばく (sabaku, 捌く)、さばける (sabakeru, 捌ける)、はける (hakeru, 捌ける)、はかす (hakasu, 捌かす)

捌 • (pal) (hangeul 팔, revised pal, McCune–Reischauer p'al, Yale phal)

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捌: Hán Nôm readings: bịt, bát, bít, xốc, bắt, biết
To know

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