also: やそ
numeric
eighty; 80
The number eighty. Used in counting, ages, prices, and other numerical contexts.
祖父は今年八十歳になります。
My grandfather will be eighty years old this year.
この本は八十ページあります。
This book has eighty pages.
Arabic numeral spelling, very common in horizontal writing and statistics.
Kanji with zero marker; occasionally seen in vertical writing or formal contexts.
Obsolete kana reading; not used in modern Japanese.
Compound of 八 (eight) and 十 (ten). The reading はちじゅう is the standard modern form; やそ is an older native Japanese reading now obsolete.