九 (jiǔ)
Nine.
How 九 is written
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 丿 — bend
- Traditional
- 九
- Simplified
- 九 (unchanged)
Components
- 丿 bend
- ㇈ N/A
Common words using 九
- 一言九鼎 yīyánjiǔdǐng
- one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
- 九十 jiǔshí
- ninety
- 九寨溝 jiǔzhàigōu
- Jiuzhaigou Valley, Sichuan; Jiuzhaigou county, Sichuan
- 九州 jiǔzhōu
- division of China during earliest dynasties; fig. ancient China; Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands
- 九月 jiǔyuè
- September; ninth month (of the lunar year)
- 九江 jiǔjiāng
- Jiujiang prefecture level city in Jiangxi; also Jiujiang county
- 九霄雲外 jiǔxiāoyúnwài
- beyond the topmost clouds (idiom); unimaginably far away
- 十九 shíjiǔ
- nineteen; 19
- 三九天 sānjiǔtiān
- the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year
- 三教九流 sānjiàojiǔliú
- the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists); fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
- 三跪九叩 sānguìjiǔkòu
- to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)
- 九三學社 jiǔsānxuéshè
- Jiusan Society
九 in a sentence
這件衣服打九折。
Zhè jiàn yīfú dǎ jiǔ zhé.
“This piece of clothing is 10% off (selling at 90% price).”
How common is 九?
九 is the 445th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 73.3% of all running text.
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