九

九面体

jiǔ miàn tǐ

enneahedron (solid figure having nine plane faces)

九龙

jiǔ lóng

Kowloon district of Hong Kong

重九

chóng jiǔ

the Double Ninth Festival (9th day of the 9th lunar month)

饭后百步走，活到九十九

fàn hòu bǎi bù zǒu , huó dào jiǔ shí jiǔ

walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)

马英九

mǎ yīng jiǔ

Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016

龙生九子

lóng shēng jiǔ zǐ

lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters

一二九运动

yī èr jiǔ yùn dòng

December 9th Movement (1935), student-led demonstrations demanding that the Chinese government resist Japanese aggression

一言九鼎

yī yán jiǔ dǐng

one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight

三九天

sān jiǔ tiān

the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year

三教九流

sān jiào jiǔ liú

the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists)

三旬九食

sān xún jiǔ shí

lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)

三贞九烈

sān zhēn jiǔ liè

(of a widow) faithful to the death to her husband's memory