八頭

はちがしら

kanji "eight" radical at top

頭身

とうしん

head and body

身八つ

みやつ

small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

八つ頭

やつがしら やっつあたま

form of taro, yam

身八つ口

みやつぐち

small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing for women and children (e.g. kimono, yukata) (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

低頭平身

ていとうへいしん

prostrating oneself

平身低頭

へいしんていとう

prostrating oneself, kowtowing, going down on one's knees

八八

two eights

八八花

はちはちばな

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

八

はち や

eight; eighth

身

み

body

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

頭

がしら あたま かしら こうべ かぶり ず つむり つむ つぶり かぶ とう かぶし

shape of one's head

八十八箇所

はちじゅうはっかしょ

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

牛頭馬頭

ごずめず

horse-headed and ox-headed demons in the Buddhist hell