八千種

やちくさ やちぐさ

many kinds

八千草

やちぐさ やちくさ

variety of plants, various herbs

八千代

やちよ

eternity, thousands of years

八千年

はっせんねん やちとせ はちせんねん

8000 years, thousands of years, eternity

千代に八千代に

ちよにやちよに

for millennia and millennia, for years and years, forever and ever

八千代国際大学

やちよこくさいだいがく

Yachiyo International University

八万四千

はちまんしせん

many

千千

せんせん ちぢ

thousands, great number of, variety

八八

two eights

八八花

はちはちばな

standard hanafuda pattern (orig. used to play hachi-hachi)

千

せん ち

1,000, thousand

八

はち や

eight; eighth

海千山千

うみせんやません

sly old dog, old fox

千人千色

せんにんせんしょく

So many people, so many minds, Everyone has his own ideas and tastes, It takes all sorts to make a world, To each his (her) own

八十八夜

はちじゅうはちや

eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring

八百八町

はっぴゃくやちょう

the whole enormous extent of Edo, from one side of Edo to the other

八百八寺

はっぴゃくやでら

the large number of temples in Kyoto

八百八橋

はっぴゃくやばし

the large number of bridges over canals and rivers in Naniwa (present-day Osaka)

八重八重

やえやえ

multilayered