手八丁口八丁

てはっちょうくちはっちょう

eloquent and skilled (worker)

口も八丁手も八丁

くちもはっちょうてもはっちょう

both eloquent and skilled

口八丁

くちはっちょう

voluble, eloquent

手八丁

てはっちょう

eloquence, cleverness in speaking

八丁

はっちょう

skillfulness

八丁味噌

はっちょうみそ

hatcho miso; dark miso variety produced in Aichi Prefecture

胸突き八丁

むなつきはっちょう

the most trying spot or period, the most difficult period

八手

はちて

fatsi (Fatsia japonica); paperplant; Japanese aralia

丁

てい ひのと ちょう

counter for sheets, pages, leaves, etc.

八つ口

やつくち やっつぐち

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

八八

two eights

八つ手

やつで

Japanese fatsia, Fatsia japonica, eight-fingered-leaf shrub

八八花

はちはちばな

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

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)

八

はち や

eight; eighth

丁未

ひのとひつじ ていび

44th of the sexagenary cycle

落丁

らくちょう

missing pages

丁巳

ひのとみ ていし

54th of the sexagenary cycle

丁丑

ひのとのうし ていちゅう

fourteenth of the sexagenary cycle