九

nine

nineteen

Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)

multiplication table

nine

the 1900s

ninefold

nine parts

Kitakyushu (city)

narrowly averting death

forty-ninth day after a person's death

as expected of Kyūshū (esp. in terms of male chauvinism, etc.)

scoring combination of a 9 and a 1 in oicho-kabu

nine people

eighteen

Kyushu University (abbr)

very low land

ozeki ranked wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank

thirteen orphans

(approx.) twelve o'clock (am or pm, old time system)

nine times

nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land

ninth

nearly

three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups

multiplication table

Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month)

Kyushu Institute of Technology (abbr)

sky

in 8 or 9 cases out of ten

Kujō spring onion (variety common in the Kansai region)

Kyūshū native

nine lives (of a cat)

nine-character charm chanted with ritual gestures to ward off evil (esp. by mountain ascetics and adherents of Esoteric Buddhism)

nine nearest generations of relatives

ninety percent

ninth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)

all simples

(about) ninety percent (finished, complete, etc.)

nine-to-five (working hours)

casting out nines

to go down to Kyushu

enneahedron

age ninety

Kyushu region (sometimes incl. the Nansei Islands)

Kyushu University

Kyudenko Corporation

narrow escape from death

narrow escape from the jaw of death

Black September (Palestinian extremist group responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics)

highest heavens

nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)

three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups

summer

kurin

Kyushu dialect

Kyushu Electric Power

nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)

Kyushu National Museum (abbr)

winding

nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope

Kitakyushu University

Kyushu Tournament (held in Fukuoka in November)

falling headlong

longtooth grouper (Epinephelus bruneus)

Kyūshū cuisine

nine-dash line (demarcation line of China's territorial claims in the South China sea)

to have a narrow escape from death

Nishikyūshuu University

many turns (in a road)

novennial

Minami Kyushu University

Onmyōdō astrologist

hades

Onmyōdō astrology

Seven Stars in Kyushu (train)

common hill mynah (Gracula religiosa)

strapping Kyushu lad

Kyūshuu Women's University

Onmyōdō astrology

nonagon

Kyushu Tokai University

Navagraha (divine personifications of the nine celestial bodies in Hindu mythology)

Kyushu Lutheran College

dagger

Kyushu Kyoritsu University

an old woman's gray hair

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Onmyōdō astrology

Kyūshuu International University

nine shallow, one deep (ancient Chinese sexual technique)

Kyushu Industrial University

Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959 novel by Heinrich Böll)

Kutani ware (style of Japanese porcelain)

Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences

facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple)

bowing repeatedly

almost certainly

Amitabha's Pure Land (composed of nine levels)

The University of Kitakyushu

Kyushu Shinkansen

(tiny) house about nine feet wide and 12 feet deep

Japanese primrose (Primula japonica)

ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th)

winning hand with at least one terminal or honor tile in each set

winning hand with at least one terminal tile in each set and no honor tiles

small fraction (of)

ninth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mars and south)

having one's guts twisted in anguish

don't count your chickens before they're hatched

nine-headed dragon

nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land

(in Onmyōdō) divination of a person's fate based on the nine celestial bodies's positions at birth

Kyushu Dental University

there is a huge markup in medicines, making it a profitable field

kowtowing

the nine grains

(whole) intestines

Kyushu National Museum

Kyushu Institute of Design

Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art

Japanese war tuba

Kyūshuuteikyō Junior College

many a little makes a mickle

Kyushu University of Health and Welfare

nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government)

great height

nine-tailed fox

pai gow (Chinese gambling game played with dominoes)

Kyushu National Industrial Research Institute

nine pins

Kyushu University of Nursing and Social Welfare

Kyushu Nutrition Welfare University

Veronicastrum sibiricum (species of flowering plant)

the nine holes in the body of humans and other mammals (mouth, eyes, ears, etc.)

Japanese Red Cross Kyushu International College of Nursing

terminal and honor tiles (i.e. 1, 9, and non-numbered tiles)

nine gates

to fail one step short of great success