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九

jiǔ

HSK 1 Character

What 九 means

1. nine
2. 9

Example sentences

• 猫有九命。
  A cat has nine lives.
• 银行九点开门
  Yínháng jiǔ diǎn kāimén
  Banks open at nine o'clock.
• 九点钟锁门。
  The door is locked at nine o'clock.
• 我九点回来。
  I will be back by nine.
• 他说九点了。
  He said that it was nine o'clock.
• 你九点上班。
  You work at nine o'clock.

Words starting with 九

• 九十jiǔ shíninety
• 九月Jiǔ yuèSeptember; ninth month (of the lunar year)
• 九龙Jiǔ lóngKowloon district of Hong Kong
• 九寨沟Jiǔ zhài gōuJiuzhaigou Valley, Sichuan; Jiuzhaigou county, Sichuan
• 九州Jiǔ zhōudivision of China during earliest dynasties; fig. ancient China…
• 九天jiǔ tiānthe ninth heaven; the highest of the heavens
• 九月份jiǔ yuè fènSeptember
• 九牛二虎之力jiǔ niú èr hǔ zhī lìtremendous strength (idiom)
• 九华山Jiǔ huá ShānMount Jiuhua in Anhui, scenic tourist site, and one of the four famous Buddhist mountains
• 九霄云外jiǔ xiāo yún wàibeyond the topmost clouds (idiom); unimaginably far away
• 九死一生jiǔ sǐ yī shēngnine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape; new lease of life
• 九份Jiǔ fènJiufen (or Jioufen or Chiufen), mountainside town in north Taiwan, former gold mining…
• 九价jiǔ jià(medicine) 9-valent HPV vaccine; Gardasil 9 (abbr. for 九價HPV九价HPV疫苗
• 九卿jiǔ qīngthe nine top officials (in imperial China)
• 九孔jiǔ kǒngabalone (Haliotis diversicolor)
• 九巴Jiǔ bāKowloon Motor Bus (KMB) (abbr. for 九龙巴士)
• 九成jiǔ chéngnine-tenths; ninety percent
• 九折jiǔ zhé10% off (price)
• 九归jiǔ guīabacus division rules (using a single-digit divisor)
• 九泉jiǔ quánthe nine springs; the underworld of Chinese mythology; Hades
• 九流jiǔ liúthe nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring…
• 九渊jiǔ yuānabyss; deep chasm
• 九窍jiǔ qiàonine orifices of the human body (eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, urethra, anus)
• 九野jiǔ yěthe nine "fields" into which Heaven was anciently divided…

Words containing 九

• 十九shí jiǔnineteen; 19
• 马英九Mǎ Yīng jiǔMa Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006…
• 十有八九shí yǒu bā jiǔmost likely; mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10); vast majority
• 十之八九shí zhī bā jiǔmost likely; mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10); vast majority
• 三教九流sān jiào jiǔ liúthe Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools…
• 交九jiāo jiǔthe coldest period of the year; three nine day periods after the winter solstice
• 广九Guǎng JiǔGuangdong and Kowloon (e.g. railway)
• 数九shǔ jiǔnine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
• 牌九pái jiǔpai gow (gambling game played with dominoes)
• 贝九Bèi jiǔBeethoven's Ninth
• 重九chóng jiǔthe Double Ninth Festival (9th day of the 9th lunar month)
• 三九天sān jiǔ tiānthe twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the…
• 下九流xià jiǔ liúthe lowest professions
• 小九九xiǎo jiǔ jiǔmultiplication tables; (fig.) plan; scheme
• 数九天shǔ jiǔ tiānnine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
• 臭老九chòu lǎo jiǔstinking intellectual…
• 诛九族zhū jiǔ zúto execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
• 一言九鼎yī yán jiǔ dǐngone word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
• 三旬九食sān xún jiǔ shílit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)…
• 三贞九烈sān zhēn jiǔ liè(of a widow) faithful to the death to her husband's memory
• 三跪九叩sān guì jiǔ kòuto kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)
• 京九铁路Jīng Jiǔ Tiě lùJingJiu (Beijing-Kowloon) railway
• 十拿九稳shí ná jiǔ wěn(idiom) to be a cinch; in the bag; (idiom) (of a person) confident of success
• 十赌九输shí dǔ jiǔ shūlit. in gambling, nine times out of ten you lose (idiom); fig. gambling is a mug's game

Characters that look like 九

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 凡fánordinary; commonplace; mundane
• 丸wánball; pellet; pill

Sounds the same

Read jiǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 酒wine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits
• 久(of a period of time) long
• 灸moxibustion (TCM)
• 韭leek
• 糺army (used during the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties)
• 〩numeral 9 in the Suzhou numeral system 苏州码子
• 㺵black jade (variant of 玖
• 玖black jade; nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 乆old variant of 久
• 乣old variant of 糺