Kanji
九
kanji character
nine
九 kanji-九 nine
九
Meaning
nine
Readings
Kun'yomi
- ここの か 9th day of the month
- ここの つ nine
- ここの え ninefold
- ここのつ
On'yomi
- きゅう じゅう ninety
- きゅう しゅう Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
- じゅう きゅう nineteen
- く がつ September
- く く multiplication table
- く く multiplication table
Practice Writing
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Common Words
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九 つnine, nine years of age, twelve o'clock (old time system) -
九 夏 summer -
九 官 鳥 common hill mynah (Gracula religiosa), hill myna, myna bird -
九 牛 の一 毛 small fraction (of), drop in the bucket, drop in the ocean -
九 牛 一 毛 small fraction (of), drop in the bucket, drop in the ocean -
九 九 multiplication table, times table -
九 々multiplication table, times table -
九 月 September, ninth month of the lunar calendar -
九 穀 the nine grains -
九 死 に一 生 narrow escape from death -
九 死 一 生 narrow escape from the jaw of death -
九 州 Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan) -
九 重 ninefold, imperial palace, the Court -
九 重 の天 highest heavens -
九 寸 五 分 dagger -
九 星 nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope -
九 星 家 Onmyōdō astrologist -
九 星 術 Onmyōdō astrology -
九 折 many turns (in a road) -
九 泉 hades, nether regions -
九 族 the nine nearest generations of relatives -
九 地 very low land -
九 天 sky, heavens, palace -
九 天 直 下 falling headlong, plummeting, sudden crash -
九 日 9th day of the month, nine days -
九 拝 bowing repeatedly, kowtowing, yours respectfully... -
九 分 nine minutes -
九 分 九 厘 almost certainly, in all probability, ten to one... -
九 輪 kurin, nine vertically stacked rings on a pagoda finial -
三 拝 九 拝 kowtowing, bowing repeatedly, three kneelings and nine prostrations...