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See also: ꝯ,
9.,
⑨, and و
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Translingual
Glyph origin
A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ९ (9)). See 9 § Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit for more.
Symbol
9 (prev 8, next 10)
- The cardinal number nine.
- A digit in the decimal system of numbering, and also hexadecimal.
- (phonetics, Sinosphere, often superscript) tone number 9, in some cases when the language does not have the usual 4 to 8 categories.
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- Letter styles
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Lining digit 9.
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Oldstyle
9 in
Fraktur script.
The following are equivalent forms as digits:
The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:
See also
Other representations of 9:
English
Noun
9 (plural 9s)
- (sports, snowboarding, skiing) Clipping of 900. (900° spin)
See also
Chinese
Etymology
九 (gau2, “nine”) and 鳩 / 鸠 (gau1) are near homophones in Cantonese.
Pronunciation
Noun
9
- (Cantonese, slang, vulgar, euphemistic, leetspeak) Alternative form of 鳩 / 鸠
- (Cantonese, slang, leetspeak, derogatory or self-deprecatory) Alternative form of 狗 (gau2, “unpleasant person”)
- DC9 [Cantonese] ― di1 si1 gau2 ― taxi driver
- IT9 [Cantonese] ― aai1 ti1 gau2 ― IT worker
Infix
9
- (Cantonese, slang, vulgar, euphemistic, leetspeak) Alternative form of 鳩 / 鸠
Derived terms