nine / 9

= 丿 + + : Joan of Arc is on cloud nine in the outhouse. With a shovel, she dug up a banana: when she peeled it she found a flute inside, with which she instantly fell in love.

九 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚). Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) shoveling a grave in the ashram's bathroom (a4).

Characters with 九 as component

ball / pellet / pill

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bag of painkillers.

Willy Walrus feels like floating on cloud nine after he took too many painkillers. Floating on cloud nine just inside the anthill's kitchen he covers himself with a large petal leaf and just wants to sleep.
mixed / miscellaneous / various / to mix

= + : Zorro (z) discovers that a sewage pipe (朩) broke just inside the ashram's kitchen (a2), and a weird mix (杂) of different smells comes out. It is in fact a cloud nine (九) which involves at least nine mixed smells.
variant of 雜|杂[za2]

= + : Zorro (z) discovers that a sewage pipe (朩) broke just inside the ashram's kitchen (a2), and a weird mix (杂) of different smells comes out. It is in fact a cloud nine (九) which involves at least nine mixed smells.
after all / to investigate / to study carefully / Taiwan pr. [jiu4]

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) is carefully studying (究) cave paintings (穴) that have appeared over night in front of the outhouse (ou1) using mass spectrometry. She carves off a little of the paintings and puts them in the mass spectrometer. As it emits a huge cloud nine (九), the spectrometer shows on the display that the main component is love.
mountain spring

氿 = + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is hiking in the Eiffel Tower (ei3). At a small mountain spring (氿) she refills her water bottle (氵). As she takes a sip she instantly falls in love with the fresh water and is on cloud nine (九).
course / path / track / rail

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is riding a roller coaster inside of the Eiffel Tower (ei3). The roller coaster has a red cabriolet (车) follow a figure-nine (九) track (轨). Additionally, the red cabriolet does not emit normal smoke but cloud nines (九).
spouse / companion
hatred / animosity / enmity / foe / enemy / to feel animosity toward (the wealthy, foreigners etc)

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) and the Queen of Hearts (qi) are now companions and float on cloud nine (九) through the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). Rosa's former lover Charlie Chaplin (ch), however, is their hatred enemy (仇).
surname Qiu
variant of 仇[chou2]

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) and the Queen of Hearts (qi) are now companions and float on cloud nine (九) through the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). Rosa's former lover Charlie Chaplin (ch), however, is their hatred enemy (仇).
variant of 仇[chou2]

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) and the Queen of Hearts (qi) are now companions and float on cloud nine (九) through the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). Rosa's former lover Charlie Chaplin (ch), however, is their hatred enemy (仇).
dawn / rising sun

Words with 九

the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom) / fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation / in dire straits
(of a widow) faithful to the death to her husband's memory
to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)
the lowest professions
Chinese Communist Party 9th congress in 1969
the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria / also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳條溝事變|柳条沟事变
December 9th Movement (1935), student-led demonstrations demanding that the Chinese government resist Japanese aggression
the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year

Sentences with 九

hái
yǒu
jiǔ
qia̅n
nián
de
xia̅n
táo
ne