| 1 | 九 (きゅう) |
| (num) nine |
| 2 | 九夏 (きゅうか) |
| (n) summer |
| 3 | 九死 (きゅうし) |
| (n) narrowly averting death |
| 4 | 九地 (きゅうち) |
| (n) very low land |
| 5 | 九穀 (きゅうこく) |
| (n) the nine grains |
| 6 | 九星 (きゅうせい) |
| (n) astrology |
| 7 | 九生 (きゅうせい) |
| (n) nine lives (of a cat) |
| 8 | 九折 (きゅうせつ) |
| (n) many turns (in a road) |
| 9 | 九泉 (きゅうせん) |
| (n) hades |
| 10 | 九仙 (きゅうせん) |
| (n) (uk) multicolorfin rainbowfish (Halichoeres poecilopterus) |
| 11 | 九族 (きゅうぞく) |
| (n) the nine nearest generations of relatives |
| 12 | 九天 (きゅうてん) |
| (n) sky |
| 13 | 九拝 (きゅうはい) |
| (n,vs) bowing many times (in apology) |
| 14 | 九か月 (きゅうかげつ) |
| (n) nine months |
| 15 | 九竅 (きゅうきょう) |
| (n) general term for the nine holes in the body of humans and other mamals |
| 16 | 九州 (きゅうしゅう) |
| (n) Kyushu (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan) |
| 17 | 九生 (きゅうしょう) |
| (n) nine lives (of a cat) |
| 18 | 九十 (きゅうじゅう) |
| (n) ninety |
| 19 | 九星家 (きゅうせいか) |
| (n) astrology |
| 20 | 九百 (きゅうひゃく) |
| (n) (1) 900 |
| 21 | 十九 (じゅうきゅう) |
| (n) 19 |
| 22 | 九回戦 (きゅうかいせん) |
| (n) regulation game |
| 23 | 九工大 (きゅうこうだい) |
| (n) Kyushu Institute of Technology |
| 24 | 九柱戯 (きゅうちゅうぎ) |
| (n) nine pins |
| 25 | 北九州 (きたきゅうしゅう) |
| (n) Kitakyushu (city) |
| 26 | 九官鳥 (きゅうかんちょう) |
| (n) (uk) hill myna (species of mynah bird, Gracula religiosa) |
| 27 | 九州弁 (きゅうしゅうべん) |
| (n) Kyushu dialect |
| 28 | 九仞の功 (きゅうじんのこう) |
| (n) spectacular success |
| 29 | 九星術 (きゅうせいじゅつ) |
| (n) astrology |
| 30 | 九尾の狐 (きゅうびのきつね) |
| (n) nine-tailed kitsune (fox spirit, kitsune are said to be more powerful the more tails they have) |
| 31 | 九死一生 (きゅうしいっしょう) |
| (n) narrow escape from the jaw of death |
| 32 | 九州地方 (きゅうしゅうちほう) |
| (n) Kyushu region (inc. Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures) |
| 33 | 九州場所 (きゅうしゅうばしょ) |
| (n) Kyushu (November) sumo tournament, held in Fukuoka |
| 34 | 九重の天 (きゅうちょうのてん) |
| (n) the palace |
| 35 | 九天直下 (きゅうてんちょっか) |
| (n) falling headlong |
| 36 | 三拝九拝 (さんぱいきゅうはい) |
| (int,n) kowtowing |
| 37 | 九牛一毛 (きゅうぎゅういちもう) |
| (n) a drop in the bucket (ocean) |
| 38 | 九死に一生 (きゅうしにいっしょう) |
| (n) narrow escape from death |
| 39 | 九州へ下る (きゅうしゅうへくだる) |
| (v5r) to go down to Kyushu |
| 40 | 九牛の一毛 (きゅうぎゅうのいちもう) |
| (n) mere fraction |
| 41 | 九牛一毛 (きゅうぎゅうのいちもう) |
| (n) a drop in the bucket (ocean) |
| 42 | 一一九番 (ひゃくじゅうきゅうばん) |
| (n) ambulance and fire brigade emergency tel. no. (in Japan) |
| 43 | 千九百年代 (せんきゅうひゃくねんだい) |
| (n) the 1900s |
| 44 | 九死に一生を得る (きゅうしにいっしょうをうる) |
| (exp) to have a narrow escape from death |
| 45 | 九死に一生を得る (きゅうしにいっしょうをえる) |
| (exp) to have a narrow escape from death |
| 46 | ストロンチウム九〇 (ストロンチウムきゅうじゅう) |
| (n) strontium 90 (Sr-90) |
| 47 | 九仞の功を一簣に虧く (きゅうじんのこうをいっきにかく) |
| (exp) expression meaning to fail one step short of great success |