Chinese Character Wiki
九

jiǔ

nine

Original meaning: 

elbow

Depicts an elbow. Based on the original meaning "elbow", now written as 肘. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

九 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
九 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
九 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
九 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
九 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

九  

jiǔ

nine; 9

Most common words with 九
Freq.
Word
Meaning

九

9

九月

September

马英九

Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016

九江

also Jiujiang county

九龙

Kowloon district of Hong Kong

Component uses

Sound component in 13 characters (1 verified)

究 仇 軌 轨 旭 鳩 鸠 馗 宄 艽 犰 氿 鼽

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

杂

Unknown component in 2 characters (0 verified)

抛 尻

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]uʔ

kjuwX

jiǔ

nine


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 24.0589% of movies

1329th most common character in movies

445th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

2

Unicode

U+4E5D

Shuowen

“九，陽之變也。象其屈曲究盡之形。”


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