九
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nine; 9
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 乙 +1
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 九
- Common rank
- #807
- Unicode
- U+4E5D
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
nine · Heisig RSH #9
— as a component also called: baseball, baseball team
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 九
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 九分之一 | one ninth | |
| 龙生九子 | lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters; good and bad intermin… | |
| 一二九运动 | December 9th Movement (1935), student protest movement calling for resistance to Japanese … | |
| 九死一生 | nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape; new lease of life | |
| 九一八事变 | the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a… | |
| 行百里者半九十 | lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom); fig. the closer one is to… | |
| 三教九流 | the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists… | |
| 三九天 | the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the yea… | |
| 数九天 | nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year | |
| 九面体 | enneahedron (solid figure having nine plane faces) | |
| 九牛二虎之力 | tremendous strength (idiom) | |
| 九台区 | Jiutai, a district of Changchun City 長春市|长春市[Chang2 chun1 Shi4], Jilin | |
| 九龙县 | Jiulong, a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zh… | |
| 九江市 | Jiujiang, prefecture-level city in Jiangxi Province 江西省[Jiang1 xi1 Sheng3] | |
| 下九流 | the lowest professions | |
| 九三学社 | Jiusan Society, one of the eight political parties of the CCP | |
| 九龙城 | Kowloon City, Hong Kong | |
| 九原区 | Jiuyuan, a district of Baotou City 包頭市|包头市[Bao1 tou2 Shi4], Inner Mongolia | |
| 九牛一毛 | (lit.) one hair from nine oxen (idiom); (fig.) a drop in the ocean | |
| 九华山 | Mount Jiuhua in Anhui, scenic tourist site, and one of the four famous Buddhist mountains |
Sound family
These characters use 九 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 九 sound part | nine | |
| 轨 | track, rut, path | |
| 仇 | enemy; hatred, enmity | |
| 究 | to dig into, to investigate; actually, after all | |
| 鸠 | pigeon; to collect, to assemble | |
| 旭 | the rising sun; brilliant, radiant | |
| 宄 | traitor; villain | |
| 犰 | armadillo | |
| 艽 | large-leaf gentian | |
| 馗 | cheekbone; path, road, intersection | |
| 氿 | spring | |
| 鼽 | sclogged nose |