Illustration: In a Japanese living room, a grandmother has arranged exactly nine mandarin oranges on a low table in three neat rows of three. Every orange is whole, distinct and unobstructed.

JLPT N5numeralLevel estimated by Bebop

九きゅう

kyuu

nine

Read 九 as く in 九時（くじ）. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 九きゅう時間寝じかんねた。

    I slept for 9 hours.

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  2. もう九く時じです。

    It’s already nine o’clock.

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  3. 私わたしの弟おとうとは九きゅう歳さいです。

    My younger brother is 9 years old.

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Kanji in 九

  • 九nineOnキュウ・クKunここの・ここのつ

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