八 Stroke Order

sprawled out on one's back (idiom)

(bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)

lively discussion with everybody talking at once

distant relatives

Bagua Knife

baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing)

Bagua

eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics

Bagua map

Eight horses

the twenty-eight constellations

Eight inches

eighteen years old

Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination

Badaling Great Wall

octagonal cap / octagonal hat

yawata

Twenty eight

Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake / Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation

palanquin with eight carriers / (fig.) lavish treatment

Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms

the eight precepts (Buddhism)

Eighteen years

eighteen / 18

August / eighth month (of the lunar year)

one eight

eight

anise / star anise / aniseed / octagonal / Fructus Anisi stellati

Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

to talk rubbish