漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence
九: nine
JLPT N52 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
丿 and 乙 carry the meaning
2 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
キュウkyuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 九州きゅうしゅうKyuushuu
- 九回きゅうかい9 times
- 九年きゅうねん9 years
クku · on'yomi
- 九月くがつSeptember
- 九時くじ9 o'clock
- 十九日じゅうくにち19 days, 19th of the month
ここのkokono · kun'yomi · on its own
- 九日ここのか9 days, 9th of the month
ここのつkokonotsu · kun'yomi
- 九つここのつ9 (objects)
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A stylized hand, with bent wrist/forearm (hence the hook stroke at lower right). Earlier forms resemble 手, 寸.
Source: Wiktionary, 九 (rev. 92630836), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The number nine, which in its ancient form was related to the winding "Z" of a hand reaching the "end" of the single-digit numbers.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiǔ
Same form: 九 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 九 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 九 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiǔ most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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