号
Pinyin: hào
date; number
Example sentence
今天是八号。
Jīntiān shì bā hào.
Today is the 8th.
What 号 means
号 (hào) is a Chinese word meaning “date; number”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at HSK 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.