# 二八
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): èrbā
    (Zhuyin): ㄦˋ ㄅㄚ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ji$^6$ baat$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: èrbā
*** Zhuyin: ㄦˋ ㄅㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: èrba
*** Wade–Giles: êrh$^4$-pa$^1$
*** Yale: èr-bā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ellba
*** Palladius: эрба (erba)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀɤɻ⁵¹ pä⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ji$^6$ baat$^3$
*** Yale: yih baat
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ji$^6$ baat$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yi$^6$ bad$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiː²² paːt̚³/
* Middle Chinese: nyijH peat
Rime :
| Character | 二 | 八 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 日 (38) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) | 鎋 (75) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | II |
| Fanqie | 而至切 | 博拔切 |
| Baxter | nyijH | peat |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ȵiɪ$^H$/ | /pˠɛt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ȵi$^H$/ | /pᵚæt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȵʑjɪ$^H$/ | /pæt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ȵi$^H$/ | /pəɨt̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ȵi$^H$/ | /pɛt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ȵʑi$^H$/ | /pæt̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ȵʑi$^H$/ | /pat̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | èr | ba |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ji$^6$ | baat$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ni[j]-s pˤret/
    (Zhengzhang): /*njis preːd/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 二 | 八 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | èr | bā |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ nyij$^H$ › | ‹ pɛt › |
| Old Chinese | /*ni[j]-s/ | /*pˁret/ |
| English | two | eight |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 二 | 八 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 2824 | 89 |
| Phonetic component | 二 | 八 |
| Rime group | 脂 | 月 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 二 | 八 |
| Old Chinese | /*njis/ | /*preːd/ |

### Numeral

二八
* (literary) sixteen
    From: The Classic of Mountains and Seas
    Yǒu shénrén èrbā, lián bì, wèi Dì sīyè yú cǐ yě. [Pinyin]
    There are sixteen gods, arm to arm, who guard the night in this field for [the deity] Di.
    From: The Verses of Chu, 4th century BCE – 2nd century CE
    Èrbā qí róng, qǐ Zhèng wǔ xiē. [Pinyin]
    Sixteen women dressed alike rise to dance to the music of Zheng.
    From: 《義興人失其妻於本郡冊方爲定訴於本君》("A man of Uiheung, having lost his wife to a clerk of his county, raises complaint to the county") by Kim Byeong'yeon (金炳淵), 1800s
    Cha i saeng non ji, yangga janyeo ipal cheongchun yu ji, ju ru gwol lyeom ji gan changgi sobu yu ji, cheongsan baeksu gwabu ji ryu yu ji, hapil tal yu bu ji nyeo ho? [Sino-Korean]
    Moreover, if we are to speak of sex, there are sixteen-year-old maidens among the children of good families; there are young prostitutes rolling up screens of silken thread; there are widows living by green hills and clear waters; why should he have had to seize a married woman?

#### Synonyms

* 十六 (shíliù)

#### Derived terms

* 二八佳人 (èrbājiārén)
* 二八大杠
* 二八女郎
* 二八年華 / 二八年华

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: 二八(にはち) (nihachi)
* → Korean: 이팔(二八) (ipal)