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Are you a big fan of Japanese samurai movies? Then you prob-
seven chinin no samurai. John Sturges was so inspired by this famous
ably know the film, Seven Samurai. In Japanese, it’s called Shi-
Akira Kurosawa film that he created The Magnificent Seven. You
SHICHI/nana will see this kanji in shichinin (seven people),
shichigatsu (July, the “seventh month”), 十七 jūnana (seven-
teen), and other seven-related compounds!
Radical: 一 Number of strokes: two
Hachi sounds like “hatch,” but it has two syllables (beats). You
eight can combine it with other kanji to create words such as
hachigatsu (August),
jūhachi (eighteen), and
HACHI/ya hachinin (eight people).
Radical: 八 Number of strokes: two
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