èr shí bā xiù
the twenty-eight constellations
sān shí bā dù xiàn
thirty eighth parallel
dividing line agreed at Yalta between US and Soviet zones of influence in Korea, now the DMZ between North and South Korea
qié èr shí bā xīng piáo chóng
28-spotted ladybird
hadda beetle
Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata
nǚ dà shí bā biàn
lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)
fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was