Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
 nine-tailed fox;  old, golden-furred fox with nine tails and shapeshifting powers used to fool humans; orig. a Chinese mystical beast whose appearance was considered auspicious
 900;  nine hundred; (arch.)  fool; (arch.)  idiot
 twenty-ninth day of the month;  twenty-nine days
 nine times;  twisting around many times
 nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope
 the nine nearest generations of relatives
 bowing many times (in apology)
 nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government);  nobility
 small fraction (of);  drop in the bucket;  drop in the ocean
 novennial;  recurring every nine years
 novennial;  recurring every nine years
 nonagon;  enneagon;  nine-sided polygon
 novennial;  recurring every nine years
 September 11 attacks;  9/11
 September 11 attacks;  9/11
 nine-dash line (demarcation line of China's territorial claims in the South China sea);  nine-dotted line
 many a little makes a mickle;  every little helps; (lit.) the tower of nine storeys (stories) rose from a small heap of earth
 multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus, was Halichoeres poecilopterus)