| ambulance and fire brigade emergency tel. no. (in Japan) |
| nine |
| multiplication table; times table |
| nine |
| multiplication table; times table |
| ninety |
| Kyushu (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan) |
| the ninth day of the month; nine days |
| September |
| ninefold; imperial palace; the Court |
| 19; nineteen |
| the 1900s |
| nine parts; nine percent; almost |
| narrowly averting death |
| forty-ninth day after a person's death |
| strontium 90 (Sr-90) |
| three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups |
| three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups |
| kowtowing; bowing repeatedly |
| multiplication table |
| novennial |
| nine months |
| (approx.) 12 o'clock (am or pm); noon; midnight |
| novennial |
| novennial |
| novennial |
| September 11th attacks |
| multiplication table |
| multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus, was Halichoeres poecilopterus) |
| spectacular success |
| to fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle |
| ozeki ranked sumo wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank |
| ten to one; nine cases out of ten |
| winding; meandering; sinuous; zigzag |
| winding; meandering; sinuous; zigzag |
| an old woman's gray hair; old woman with white hair |
| age ninety; one's nineties |
| nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government); nobility |
| nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land; Amitabha's Pure Land; nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land |
| Amitabha's Pure Land (composed of nine levels) |
| nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land |
| regulation game; 9th inning |
| very low land |
| summer |
| sky; heavens; palace |
| falling headlong; plummeting; sudden crash |
| hill myna (species of mynah bird, Gracula religiosa) |
| dagger |
| (tiny) house about nine feet wide and 12 feet deep |
| nine-tailed kitsune (fox spirit, kitsune are said to be more powerful the more tails they have) |
| to go down to Kyushu |
| Kyushu region (inc. Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures) |
| Kyushu (November) sumo tournament, held in Fukuoka |
| Kyushu dialect |
| Kyushu Institute of Technology; KIT |
| many turns (in a road) |
| bowing many times (in apology) |
| the nine nearest generations of relatives |
| nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyoudou, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope |
| astrology; star reader |
| astrology; horoscopy |
| nine pins; skittles |
| narrow escape from death |
| to have a narrow escape from death |
| narrow escape from the jaw of death |
| hades; nether regions |
| nine shallow, one deep (ancient Chinese sexual technique) |
| mere fraction; drop in the bucket |
| a drop in the bucket (ocean); a small fraction (of); trifle |
| nine lives (of a cat) |
| 900; fool; idiot |
| the nine grains |
| general term for the nine holes in the body of humans and other mammals |
| novennial |
| ninth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mars and south) |
| longtooth grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus bruneus) |
| Veronicastrum sibiricum (species of flowering plant) |
| kutani-ware (var. of porcelain) |
| kurin (nine vertically stacked rings of a pagoda finial); pagoda finial |
| the palace |
| eighteen |
| nearly; almost |
| Kitakyushu (city) |
| 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability |
| ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th) |
| the ninth (i.e. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) |
| "There is a huge markup in medicines." |
| facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) |
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