九
jiǔ
Pinyin

Definition

九
 - 
jiǔ
  1. nine
  2. 9

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

九
jiǔ
  1. 1 nine
  2. 2 9
马英九
Mǎ Yīng jiǔ
  1. 1 Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016
一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
九十
jiǔ shí
  1. 1 ninety
九寨沟
Jiǔ zhài gōu
  1. 1 Jiuzhaigou Valley, Sichuan
  2. 2 Jiuzhaigou county, Sichuan
九尾狐
jiǔ wěi hú
  1. 1 nine-tailed fox (mythological creature)
九州
Jiǔ zhōu
  1. 1 division of China during earliest dynasties
  2. 2 fig. ancient China
  3. 3 Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands
九月
Jiǔ yuè
  1. 1 September
  2. 2 ninth month (of the lunar year)
九江
Jiǔ jiāng
  1. 1 Jiujiang prefecture-level city in Jiangxi
  2. 2 also Jiujiang county
九华山
Jiǔ huá shān
  1. 1 Mt Jiuhua in Anhui, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Kṣitigarbha 地藏
九霄云外
jiǔ xiāo yún wài
  1. 1 beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)
  2. 2 unimaginably far away
九龙
Jiǔ lóng
  1. 1 Kowloon district of Hong Kong
十九
shí jiǔ
  1. 1 nineteen
  2. 2 19
十有八九
shí yǒu bā jiǔ
  1. 1 most likely
  2. 2 mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10)
  3. 3 vast majority
三九天
sān jiǔ tiān
  1. 1 the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year
三教九流
sān jiào jiǔ liú
  1. 1 the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists)
  2. 2 fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
三跪九叩
sān guì jiǔ kòu
  1. 1 to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)
下九流
xià jiǔ liú
  1. 1 the lowest professions
九三学社
Jiǔ sān Xué shè
  1. 1 Jiusan Society, one of the eight political parties of the CPC
九九归一
jiǔ jiǔ guī yī
  1. 1 nine divide by nine is one (abacus rule)
  2. 2 when all is said and done

Idioms (9)

一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
  3. 3 in dire straits
九天揽月
jiǔ tiān lǎn yuè
  1. 1 to reach for the stars (idiom)
九死一生
jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
  1. 1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape
  2. 2 new lease of life
九牛一毛
jiǔ niú yī máo
  1. 1 lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a drop in the ocean
九牛二虎之力
jiǔ niú èr hǔ zhī lì
  1. 1 tremendous strength (idiom)
九霄云外
jiǔ xiāo yún wài
  1. 1 beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)
  2. 2 unimaginably far away
行百里者半九十
xíng bǎi lǐ zhě bàn jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets
  3. 3 a task is not done until it's done
龙生九子
lóng shēng jiǔ zǐ
  1. 1 lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters
  2. 2 good and bad intermingled
  3. 3 It takes all sorts to make a world.

Sample Sentences

老板，已经九点了。我们还加班呀？
lǎobǎn ，yǐjīng jiǔ diǎn le 。wǒmen hái jiābān ya ？
Boss, it’s already nine o’clock at night. Do we still have to work overtime?
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不管你几岁，你可能六十岁，九十岁，你都在学习新的东西。
bùguǎn nǐ jǐsuì ，nǐ kěnéng liùshí suì ，jiǔshí suì ，nǐ dōu zài xuéxí Xīn de dōngxi 。
No matter how old you are, you can be sixty or ninety years old, but you'll still be learning something new.
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我二十二岁。一九九七年出生。一九九七年七月二十号。
wǒ èr shí èr suì 。yī jiǔ jiǔ qī nián chūshēng 。yī jiǔ jiǔ qī nián Qīyuè èrshí hào 。
I am 22 years old. (I was) born in 1997. July 20th, 1997.
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九
jiǔ
nine
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一九九六年
yījiǔjiǔliù nián
year 1996
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一九四三年
yījiǔsìsān nián
year 1943
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九月
jiǔ yuè
September
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七八九十
qī bā jiǔ shí
seven eight nine ten
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这些钱只是九牛一毛。
zhèxiē qián zhǐshì jiǔniúyīmáo 。
This amount of money is nothing.
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九牛一毛
jiǔniúyīmáo
Lit: Nine buffaloes and one hair. Fig: Few or little.
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