九九 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary


Article Images
nine nine
simp. and trad.
(九九)


BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiǔ
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjuwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]uʔ/
English nine

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 6941
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kuʔ/

九九

  1. multiplication table; nine-nine
  2. eighty-one; nine nines
  3. (literary) nine nine-day periods (eighty-one days) starting from a solstice (usually the winter solstice)
  4. (literary) last of the nine nine-day periods; ninth nine-day period
  5. Alternative term for 重陽節重阳节 (Chóngyángjié, “Double Ninth Festival”).
Kanji in this term

Grade: 1

Grade: 1
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
九々

()() (kuku

  1. multiplication table
  1. 1.0 1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN