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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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九
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
jiǔ
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ kjuwX ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*uʔ/
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| English
|
nine
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
|
九
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| Reading #
|
1/1
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| No.
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6941
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Phonetic
component
|
九
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Rime
group
|
幽
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Rime
subdivision
|
1
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
久
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Old
Chinese
|
/*kuʔ/
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Noun
九九
- multiplication table; nine-nine
- eighty-one; nine nines
- (literary) nine nine-day periods (eighty-one days) starting from a solstice (usually the winter solstice)
- (literary) last of the nine nine-day periods; ninth nine-day period
- Alternative term for 重陽節／重阳节 (Chóngyángjié, “Double Ninth Festival”).
Derived terms
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
九九 • (kuku)
- multiplication table
References