kurin; nine vertically stacked rings on a pagoda finial
nine parts; ninety percent; mostly; nine percent
forty-ninth day after a person's death
nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land; Amitabha's Pure Land; nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land
ninth; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
multiplication table; times table
19th day of the month; 19 days; (arch.) fool; (arch.) simpleton
29th day of the month; 29 days
900; nine hundred; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot
ninefold; imperial palace; the Court
nine-character charm chanted with ritual gestures to ward off evil (esp. by mountain ascetics and adherents of Esoteric Buddhism)
almost certainly; in all probability; ten to one; near-completeness; near-perfection; ninety-nine percent (finished, etc.)
three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups
kusōzu; painting depicting the nine stages of decomposition of a corpse
Kutani ware (style of Japanese porcelain)
(tiny) house about nine feet wide and 12 feet deep
Kujō spring onion (variety common in the Kansai region)
facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple)
there is a huge markup in medicines, making it a profitable field; medicines sell for ten times the cost of their ingredients
ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959 novel by Heinrich Böll); Billard um halb zehn