はち【八】 : hachi | define meaning

Cognate with standard Japanese はち【八】 hachi "eight". Ultimately from Chinese 【八】 "eight" (cf. Mandarin bā; Cantonese baat3; Eastern Min báik; Hokkien poeh, peh, piē and pat; Sino-Korean 팔 pal; Sino-Vietnamese bát), reconstructed for Middle Chinese as *peat.

Historical Ryukyuan attestations

• Vocabulary of the language spoken at the Great Loo-Choo Island, in the Japan Sea (1818), by Herbert John Clifford, records "Eight. Kwat'chee, or fat'chee (Loo-Choo); Eeyat'see (Japan)", "Eighteen. Kwat'chee joo, or fat'chee joo", "Twenty, eight. Hácoo fat'cheejoo", "[Names of the hours] Eight. Fat'chee twit'chee".