キュウ
Meanings
Numeric
1. nine; 9
玖 is used in legal documents
Pitch accent
キュ
Used in vocabulary (29 in total)
multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus, was Halichoeres poecilopterus)
19; nineteen
Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
twenty-ninth day of the month; twenty-nine days
900; nine hundred; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot
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
nine times; twisting around many times
narrow escape from death
nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope
sky; heavens; palace
the nine nearest generations of relatives
very low land
bowing many times (in apology)
narrowly averting death
nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government); nobility
novennial; recurring every nine years
small fraction (of); drop in the bucket; drop in the ocean
nine lives (of a cat)
nine lives (of a cat)
great height
September 11 attacks; 9/11
September 11 attacks; 9/11
nonagon; enneagon; nine-sided polygon
enneahedron; nonahedron
nine-dash line (demarcation line of China's territorial claims in the South China sea); nine-dotted line
many a little makes a mickle; every little helps; (lit.) the tower of nine storeys (stories) rose from a small heap of earth
Examples (3 in total)
The 1990's saw various incidents.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.