きゅう
Meanings
Numeric
1. nine; 9
玖 is used in legal documents
Kanji used
nine
Pitch accent
きゅ
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Used in vocabulary (31 in total)
Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
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
900; nine hundred; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot
twenty-ninth day of the month; twenty-nine days
nine times; twisting around many times
nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope
narrowly averting death
sky; heavens; palace
the nine nearest generations of relatives
bowing many times (in apology)
nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government); nobility
small fraction (of); drop in the bucket; drop in the ocean
nine lives (of a cat)
nine lives (of a cat)
very low land
novennial; recurring every nine years
novennial; recurring every nine years
novennial; recurring every nine years
enneahedron; nonahedron
nine-dash line (demarcation line of China's territorial claims in the South China sea); nine-dotted line
nonagon; enneagon; nine-sided polygon
many a little makes a mickle; every little helps; (lit.) the tower of nine storeys (stories) rose from a small heap of earth
multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus, was Halichoeres poecilopterus)
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.