Kana: きゅう

nine

Example sentence

今九時です。

いまくじです。

It is nine o'clock now.

What 九 means

(きゅう) is a Japanese word meaning “nine”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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