noun:

• court noble; nobility ➜ 公家【くげ】
• three lords and nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government) ［こうけい］

noun:

• the ninth day of the month
• nine days

noun:

• twenty-ninth day of the month
• twenty-nine days

noun:

• one plot (of land); one block (i.e. one city block); one area; one lot
• one brush stroke; one kanji stroke

noun:

• general term for the nine holes in the body of humans and other mammals

noun:

• province-district-neighbourhood system (system of administrative divisions under the ritsuryo; 1 neighbourhood=~50 homes, 1 district=2-20 neighbourhoods) ➜ 郷里制・律令制

noun:

• pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9) as three chows - Mahjong term

noun:

• nine cuts mudra (mudra: hand posture which forms a part of Hindu prayer); exorcism-purification spell - Buddhism term

noun:

• Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947)
• Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of the Holy Roman Empire

noun:

• empire

~の noun:

• imperial

noun:

• island empire - obscure term

noun:

• palm (of one's hand)
• skill
• scope of one's power
• one's intentions; one's plan
• one's hand (mahjong, card games, etc.)

noun:

• one tenth; one hundredth; one percent; one tenth of a sun; one quarter ryou (an old coin)

noun:

• the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics - four character idiom

noun:

• empire

noun:

• the British Empire

noun:

• (French) Second Empire

noun:

• (French) First Empire

adverbial noun / noun:

• one part; one portion; one section; some
• one copy (e.g. of a document)

expression / suffix:

• one Nth part (e.g. one fifth, one tenth); one out of N - after number N ➜ 分の

noun:

• Japan; the (Japanese) empire

noun:

• British Empire

noun:

• Roman Empire

noun:

• Incan Empire

noun:

• Ottoman Empire