九

nine / 9

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

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

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