IDENTITY
九jiǔnine
HSK 1Top 650
CORE MEANING
nine
- Part of speech
- numeral
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.nineHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 丿slash radical (piě)
- strokes
- 2
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- 九
USAGE
Common words
九月jiǔyuèSeptember
十九shíjiǔnineteen
Graded examples
商店九点开门。Shāngdiàn jiǔ diǎn kāimén.HSK1
The store opens at nine.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 几
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A bent arm reaching its limit — nine, the largest single digit.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #650
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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