九

Meaning

九 centers on the number nine, a fundamental numeral.

• 九きゅう
  N5

  nine; 9

• 九州きゅうしゅう

  Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)

• 北九州きたきゅうしゅう

  Kitakyushu (city)

• 九絵くえ

  longtooth grouper (Epinephelus bruneus)

• 十中八九じっちゅうはっく

  in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability

• 九州大学きゅうしゅうだいがく

  Kyushu University

• 九州電力きゅうしゅうでんりょく

  Kyushu Electric Power

• 九大きゅうだい

  Kyushu University (abbr)

• 九重ここのえ

  ninefold

• 九つここのつ
  N5

  nine

• 九死きゅうし

  narrowly averting death

• 九星きゅうせい

  nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope

• 九谷焼くたにやき

  Kutani ware (style of Japanese porcelain)

• 九輪くりん

  kurin; nine vertically stacked rings on a pagoda finial

• 九官鳥きゅうかんちょう

  common hill mynah (Gracula religiosa); hill myna; myna bird

• 九字くじ

  nine-character charm chanted with ritual gestures to ward off evil (esp. by mountain ascetics and adherents of Esoteric Buddhism)

• 九頭竜くずりゅう

  nine-headed dragon

• 九曜くよう

  Navagraha (divine personifications of the nine celestial bodies in Hindu mythology); nine luminaries

• 十九じゅうきゅう

  nineteen; 19

• 九九くく

  multiplication table; times table

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