Kanji: 九

    • Meaning : nine
    • ON reading : キュウ,ク
    • KUN reading : ここの,ここの.つ
    • Nanori : いちじく,いちのく,この,ひさし
    • Stroke count : 2
    • Frequency of use ranking : 55
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 4
    • Radical : 乙, 乚, 乛

Words containing that kanji:


  • - にく - eighteen
  • - だいく - the ninth (i.e. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony)
  • - きゅうか - summer
  • | 々 - くく - multiplication table
  • - きゅうしにいっしょう - narrow escape from death
  • - きゅうちょうのてん - the palace
  • - きゅうせいじゅつ - astrology/horoscopy
  • - きゅうち - very low land
  • - きゅうはい - bowing many times (in apology)
  • - きゅうじんのこう - spectacular success
  • - きゅうかいせん - regulation game/9th inning
  • | 9 - くがつ - September
  • - きゅうしいっしょう - narrow escape from the jaw of death
  • - くすんごぶ - dagger
  • - きゅうせつ - many turns (in a road)
  • - きゅうてん - sky/heavens/palace
  • - くぶ - nine parts/nine percent/almost
  • 9つ | つ - ここのつ - nine
  • - きゅうぎゅうのいちもう - mere fraction/drop in the bucket
  • - きゅうこく - the nine grains
  • - ここのえ - ninefold/imperial palace/the Court
  • - きゅうせいか - astrology/star reader
  • - きゅうぞく - the nine nearest generations of relatives
  • | - ここのか | ここぬか - the ninth day of the month | nine days
  • - くりん - kurin (nine vertically stacked rings of a pagoda finial)/pagoda finial
  • - きゅうかんちょう | キュウカンチョウ - hill myna (species of mynah bird, Gracula religiosa)
  • - きゅうこうだい - Kyushu Institute of Technology/KIT
  • - きゅうしゅう - Kyushu (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
  • - きゅうせい - astrology/horoscope
  • - きゅうせん - hades/nether regions
  • - きゅうてんちょっか - falling headlong/plummeting/sudden crash
  • - くぶくりん - ten to one/nine cases out of ten
  • 911 | - きゅういちいちじけん - September 11th attacks
  • - きゅうけい - nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government) | nobility
  • - さんぱいきゅうはい - kowtowing/bowing repeatedly
  • - くえ | クエ - longtooth grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus bruneus)
  • | | - きゅうせん | キュウセン - multicolorfin rainbowfish (Halichoeres poecilopterus)
  • - くほんじょうど - Amitabha's Pure Land (composed of nine levels)
  • - じゅうきゅう - 19/nineteen
  • - じっちゅうはっく | じゅっちゅうはっく - 8 or 9 cases out of ten/in all probability
  • - くたにやき - kutani-ware (var. of porcelain)
  • - くほんれんだい - nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land
  • - きゅうひゃく | くひゃく - 900 | fool/idiot
  • - くほん | ここのしな - nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land | Amitabha's Pure Land | nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land
  • - きゅうびのきつね - nine-tailed kitsune (fox spirit, kitsune are said to be more powerful the more tails they have)
  • - くがいそう | クガイソウ - Veronicastrum sibiricum (species of flowering plant)
  • - ここのそじ - age ninety/one's nineties
  • - きゅうしゅうべん - Kyushu dialect
  • - きゅうきょう - general term for the nine holes in the body of humans and other mamals
  • ストロンチウム〇 | ストロンチウム90 - ストロンチウムきゅうじゅう - strontium 90 (Sr-90)
  • - きたきゅうしゅう - Kitakyushu (city)
  • - きゅうしゅうちほう - Kyushu region (inc. Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures)
  • - はっくぶ - nearly/almost
  • く - きゅうじんのこうをいっきにかく - expression meaning to fail one step short of great success/to fall at the last hurdle
  • - きゅう | く | ここの | この | ここ - nine
  • - きゅうじゅう | くじゅう - ninety
  • 々の | - くくのひょう - multiplication table
  • | - さんさんくど - three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups
  • - きゅうちゅうぎ - nine pins/skittles
  • 119 | - ひゃくじゅうきゅうばん - ambulance and fire brigade emergency tel. no. (in Japan)
  • - つくもがみ - an old woman's gray hair | old woman with white hair
  • - きゅうぎゅういちもう | きゅうぎゅうのいちもう - a drop in the bucket (ocean)/a small fraction (of)/trifle
  • - くしゃくにけん - (tiny) house about nine feet wide and 12 feet deep
  • - くんろく - ozeki ranked sumo wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank
  • - きゅうしゅうばしょ - Kyushu (November) sumo tournament, held in Fukuoka
  • - くすりくそうばい - "There is a huge markup in medicines."
  • - きゅうしょう | きゅうせい - nine lives (of a cat)
  • - きゅうし - narrowly averting death
  • - きゅうかげつ - nine months
  • - しじゅうくにち - forty-ninth day after a person's death
  • | り | り - つづらおり - winding/meandering/sinuous/zigzag
  • - ここのつどき - (approx.) 12 o'clock (am or pm)/noon/midnight
  • る - きゅうしにいっしょうをうる | きゅうしにいっしょうをえる - to have a narrow escape from death
  • る - きゅうしゅうへくだる - to go down to Kyushu
  • - せんきゅうひゃくねんだい - the 1900s