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Translingual

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Glyph origin

A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari (9)). See 9 § Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit for more.

Symbol

9 (prev 8, next 10)

  1. The cardinal number nine.
  2. A digit in the decimal system of numbering, and also hexadecimal.
  3. September.
    Comeronyms: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12
  4. (phonetics, Sinosphere, often superscript) tone number 9, in some cases when the language does not have the usual 4 to 8 categories.

Alternative forms

The following are equivalent forms as digits:

The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:

See also

Other representations of 9:

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English

Noun

9 (plural 9s)

  1. (sports, snowboarding, skiing) Clipping of 900 (900° spin).

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Chinese

Etymology

(gau2, nine) and  / (gau1) are near homophones in Cantonese.

Pronunciation

Noun

9

  1. (Cantonese, slang, vulgar, euphemistic, leetspeak) alternative form of  /
  2. (Cantonese, slang, leetspeak, derogatory or self-deprecatory) alternative form of (gau2, unpleasant person)
    DC9 [Cantonese]   di1 si1 gau2 [Jyutping]   taxi driver
    IT9 [Cantonese]   aai1 ti1 gau2 [Jyutping]   IT worker

Infix

9

  1. (Cantonese, slang, vulgar, euphemistic, leetspeak) alternative form of  /

Derived terms

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