noun:

• three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups ➜ 三三九度
• sake (secret language of court ladies); rice wine ➜ 女房詞

noun:

• artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit

expression / noun:

• having one's guts twisted in anguish; deep grief; heartbroken thoughts ➜ 九回【きゅうかい】

noun:

• the palace

noun:

• multiplication table

noun:

• (approx.) 12 o'clock (am or pm); noon; midnight - archaism

noun:

• Veronicastrum sibiricum (species of flowering plant)

noun:

• Kyushu (November) tournament, held in Fukuoka - Sumo term

noun:

• dagger - four character idiom

noun:

• nine-tailed kitsune (fox spirit, kitsune are said to be more powerful the more tails they have) ➜ 天狐

numeric:

• nine - クー, キュー or チュー in mahjong - From Chinese "jiǔ"

~の noun / noun:

• winding; meandering; sinuous; zigzag - four character idiom

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

noun:

• nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)

noun:

• nine gates; winning hand composed of 1-1-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-9-9 of the same suit plus one additional tile of the same suit - Mahjong term

noun:

• 900
• fool; idiot ［くひゃく］ - archaism - derogatory term

noun:

• astrologist; horoscopist; star reader

noun:

• an old woman's gray hair - four character idiom
• old woman with white hair

noun:

• nine months

noun:

• astrology; horoscopy

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle - idiom

noun:

• many turns (in a road)

noun:

• nonagon; enneagon; nine-sided polygon

noun:

• hades; nether regions

noun:

• the nine nearest generations of relatives