九 jiǔ HSK 1 前 5000 名 最常用的 5,000 个词之一 1. nine2. 9
1. September2. ninth month (of the lunar year)
1. most likely2. mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10)3. vast majority
1. division of China during earliest dynasties2. fig. ancient China3. Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands
nine-tailed fox (mythological creature)
the ninth heaven; the highest of the heavens
1. most likely2. mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10)3. vast majority
1. (idiom) to be a cinch; in the bag2. (idiom) (of a person) confident of success
1. beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)2. unimaginably far away
1. pretty close2. very near3. about right
1. nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape2. new lease of life
Kowloon district of Hong Kong
1. the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists)2. fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
pai gow (gambling game played with dominoes)
1. the nine springs2. the underworld of Chinese mythology3. Hades
Jiufen (or Jioufen or Chiufen), mountainside town in north Taiwan, former gold mining town, used as the setting for two well-known movies
the nine top officials (in imperial China)
abalone (Haliotis diversicolor)
1. nine-tenths2. ninety percent
abacus division rules (using a single-digit divisor)
the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家[rú jiā], Daoists 道家[dào jiā], Yin and Yang 阴阳家[yīn yáng jiā], Legalists 法家[fǎ jiā], Logicians 名家[míng jiā], Mohists 墨家[mò jiā], Diplomats 纵横家[zòng héng jiā], Miscellaneous 杂家[zá jiā], and Agriculturalists 农家[nóng jiā]
nine orifices of the human body (eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, urethra, anus)
the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, symbol of state power, dating back to the Xia Dynasty
nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
the Double Ninth Festival (9th day of the 9th lunar month)
the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year
Jiugong Mountains (the location of Jiugong Mountain National Park), in Tongshan County, Xianning 咸宁[xián níng], Hubei
1. Jiuzhaigou Valley, Sichuan2. Jiuzhaigou county, Sichuan
Jiuyi Mountains in Hunan on the border with Guangdong
Jiujiang, prefecture-level city in Jiangxi Province 江西省[jiāng xī shěng]
Mount Jiuhua in Anhui, scenic tourist site, and one of the four famous Buddhist mountains
Chinese rings, a brainteaser toy consisting of nine rings interlocked on a looped handle, the objective being to remove the rings from the handle
1. ninth heaven2. Highest Heaven
1. legendary bird with nine heads (old)2. cunning or sly person
brown marmorated stinkbug (BMSB)
Jiulong, a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[gān zī zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Sichuan
1. multiplication tables2. (fig.) plan3. scheme
stinking intellectual (contemptuous term for educated people during the Cultural Revolution)
Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016
1. lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)2. fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation3. in dire straits
(of a widow) faithful to the death to her husband's memory