九

jiǔ

nine

9

a picture of 九 → a bent elbow, borrowed to mean nine

Originally drawn as a bent elbow, 九 was borrowed purely for its sound to represent the number nine. The elbow meaning was long ago replaced by this numerical function.

丿+乙→九

我家有九只猫。

wǒ jiā yǒu jiǔ zhī māo。

My family has nine cats.

这道题的答案等于九。

zhè dào tí de dá àn děng yú jiǔ。

The answer to this problem equals nine.

Words with 九

九霄云外

jiǔ xiāo yún wài

beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)

九面体

jiǔ miàn tǐ

enneahedron (solid figure having nine plane faces)

九龙

jiǔ lóng

Kowloon district of Hong Kong

九龙坡区

jiǔ lóng pō qū

Jiulongpo, a district of Chongqing 重慶|重庆[Chong2 qing4]

十拿九稳

shí ná jiǔ wěn

(idiom) to be a cinch; in the bag

一言九鼎

yī yán jiǔ dǐng

one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight

九一八事变

jiǔ yī bā shì biàn

the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria

十之八九

shí zhī bā jiǔ

most likely

九寨沟

jiǔ zhài gōu

Jiuzhaigou Valley, Sichuan

九州

jiǔ zhōu

division of China during earliest dynasties

重九

chóng jiǔ

the Double Ninth Festival (9th day of the 9th lunar month)

饭后百步走,活到九十九

fàn hòu bǎi bù zǒu , huó dào jiǔ shí jiǔ

walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)

More characters with 丿

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