Meanings
Numeric
1. nine; 9
玖 is used in legal documents
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (23 in total)
kurin; nine vertically stacked rings on a pagoda finial
nine parts; nine percent; almost
forty-ninth day after a person's death
nine o'clock
ninety; 90
multiplication table; times table
the ninth; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
nineteenth day of the month; nineteen days; (arch.) fool; (arch.) simpleton
twenty-ninth day of the month; twenty-nine days
900; nine hundred; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot
ninefold; imperial palace; the Court
nine-character charm chanted with ritual gestures to ward off evil (esp. by mountain ascetics and adherents of Esoteric Buddhism)
ten to one; nine cases out of ten
nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land
three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups
Kutani ware; style of Japanese porcelain
(tiny) house about nine feet wide and 12 feet deep
facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple)
there is a huge markup in medicines, making it a profitable field; medicines sell for ten times the cost of their ingredients; (lit.) medicine ten times
mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)
ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th)
eighteen
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.