nine

words containing 九

• 九きゅう nine, 9
• 九チュー nine
• 九州きゅうしゅう Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
• 十中八九じっちゅうはっく in 8 or 9 cases out of ten, in all probability
• 九時くじ nine o'clock
• 十九じゅうきゅう nineteen, 19
• 九月くがつ September
• 九十きゅうじゅう ninety, 90
• 九日ここのか 9th day of the month
• 九割きゅうわり ninety percent
• 第九だいく ninth
• 九人きゅうにん nine people
• 九ここのつ nine
• 九九くく multiplication table, times table
• 九死きゅうしに一生いっしょうを得える to have a narrow escape from death
• 九百きゅうひゃく 900, nine hundred
• 二九にく eighteen
• 九分くぶ nine parts, ninety percent, mostly
• 九分きゅうふん nine minutes
• 九回きゅうかい nine times
• 九分九厘くぶくりん almost certainly, in all probability, ten to one, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred
• 九六くんろく ozeki ranked wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank
• 北九州きたきゅうしゅう Kitakyushu (city)
• 九段くだん ninth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)
• 九重ここのえ ninefold
• 二十九にじゅうきゅう 29, twenty nine
• 九官鳥きゅうかんちょう common hill mynah (Gracula religiosa), hill myna, myna bird
• 九死きゅうしに一生いっしょう narrow escape from death
• 九一くっぴん scoring combination of a 9 and a 1 in oicho-kabu
• 九尾きゅうびの狐きつね nine-tailed fox, old, golden-furred fox with nine tails and shapeshifting powers used to fool humans; orig. a Chinese mystical beast whose appearance was considered auspicious
• 九字くじ nine-character charm chanted with ritual gestures to ward off evil (esp. by mountain ascetics and adherents of Esoteric Buddhism)
• 九州地方きゅうしゅうちほう Kyushu region (sometimes incl. the Nansei Islands)
• 九曜くよう Navagraha (divine personifications of the nine celestial bodies in Hindu mythology), nine luminaries
• 一一九番ひゃくじゅうきゅうばん 119 (ambulance and fire brigade emergency telephone number in Japan)
• 九頭竜くずりゅう nine-headed dragon
• 九州男児きゅうしゅうだんじ strapping Kyushu lad, virile son of Kyushu