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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

九 is meant to symbolize a fist tightening to bump up against something; thus, there is a metaphorical bumping up of nine against ten, which is the the last number when counting on one's fingers.

[edit] Han character

(radical 5 +1, 2 strokes, cangjie input 大弓 (KN), four-corner 40017)

  1. nine

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 83, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 167
  • Dae Jaweon: page 168, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 48, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+4E5D
  • Chinese Numeral

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Etymology

From Old Chinese *kwyu? < Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t-kua (compare Classical Tibetan dgu)

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale gau2)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Number

(きゅう, kyū)

  1. nine

[edit] Noun

(hiragana きゅう, romaji kyū)

  1. nine
  2. quite many things (lead to )

[edit] Etymology

/ko2ko2no2/: [kəkənə] > [kokono].

[edit] Noun

(hiragana ここの, romaji kokono)

  1. nine

[edit] Kanji

(grade 1 kanji)

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[edit] Compounds


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[edit] Hanja


Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: gu, McCune-Reischauer: ku, Yale: kwu)
  • Name (hangeul): 아홉 (revised: ahop, McCune-Reischauer: ahop, Yale: ahop)
  1. nine

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin jiǔ (jiu3), xiǎng (xiang3), xiàng (xiang4), Wade-Giles chiu3, hsiang3, hsiang4)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(cửu)


[edit] Wu

[edit] Pronunciation

IPA:

Latin Alphabet: juˇ

Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄐ一ㄡˇ

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