| 八路军 | bā lù jūn | Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) | |
| 四面八方 | sì miàn bā fāng | in all directions; all around; far and near | |
| 八字 | bā zì | the character 8 or 八 ; birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
| 乱七八糟 | luàn qī bā zāo | everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess; at sixes and sevens | |
| 五花八门 | wǔ huā bā mén | myriad; all kinds of; all sorts of |
| 1 | August is in summer. | |
| 2 | I get up at half past eight. | |
| 3 | We have eight students. | |
| 4 | My birthday is in August. | |
| 5 | There are eight apples on the table. |
