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九 — stroke order
Watch how to write 九 (jiǔ) stroke by stroke. 九 has 2 strokes and means “nine”. It appears in common words such as 十九 (nineteen) and 九月 (September). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 九
The most common words that use 九 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
十九shíjiǔnineteen九月jiǔyuèSeptember九江jiǔjiāngJiujiang prefecture level city in Jiang…九十jiǔshíninety九霄雲外jiǔxiāoyúnwàibeyond the topmost clouds九州jiǔzhōudivision of China during earliest dynas…
How 九 is written
- Radical
- 乙
- Components
- 丿 ＋ 乙
- Formation
- Pictographic — An elbow.