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九

九 is a Japanese kanji written with 2 strokes, listed here under the keyword “nine”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 9. It appears as a component in 10 other characters in this index.

Keyword
nine
RTK frame
9
Strokes
2
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
キュウ, ク
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
ここの, ここの.つ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
baseball, девять
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
九 nine

Decomposition

No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.

Characters that contain 九

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