九野
jiǔ yě
Pinyin

Definition

九野
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jiǔ yě
  1. the nine "fields" into which Heaven was anciently divided
  2. the Nine Provinces of ancient China

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

九
jiǔ
  1. 1 nine
  2. 2 9
野
yě
  1. 1 old variant of 野[yě]
野蛮
yě mán
  1. 1 barbarous
  2. 2 uncivilized
马英九
Mǎ Yīng jiǔ
  1. 1 Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016
一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
九十
jiǔ shí
  1. 1 ninety
九寨沟
Jiǔ zhài gōu
  1. 1 Jiuzhaigou Valley, Sichuan
  2. 2 Jiuzhaigou county, Sichuan
九尾狐
jiǔ wěi hú
  1. 1 nine-tailed fox (mythological creature)
九州
Jiǔ zhōu
  1. 1 division of China during earliest dynasties
  2. 2 fig. ancient China
  3. 3 Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands
九成
jiǔ chéng
  1. 1 nine-tenths
  2. 2 ninety percent
九月
Jiǔ yuè
  1. 1 September
  2. 2 ninth month (of the lunar year)
九江
Jiǔ jiāng
  1. 1 Jiujiang prefecture-level city in Jiangxi
  2. 2 also Jiujiang county
九华山
Jiǔ huá shān
  1. 1 Mt Jiuhua in Anhui, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Kṣitigarbha 地藏
九霄云外
jiǔ xiāo yún wài
  1. 1 beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)
  2. 2 unimaginably far away
九龙
Jiǔ lóng
  1. 1 Kowloon district of Hong Kong
十九
shí jiǔ
  1. 1 nineteen
  2. 2 19
十有八九
shí yǒu bā jiǔ
  1. 1 most likely
  2. 2 mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10)
  3. 3 vast majority
原野
yuán yě
  1. 1 plain
  2. 2 open country
吉野家
Jí yě jiā
  1. 1 Yoshinoya (Japanese fast food chain)
小野
Xiǎo yě
  1. 1 Ono (Japanese surname and place name)

Idioms (15)

一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
  3. 3 in dire straits
九天揽月
jiǔ tiān lǎn yuè
  1. 1 to reach for the stars (idiom)
九死一生
jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
  1. 1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape
  2. 2 new lease of life
九牛一毛
jiǔ niú yī máo
  1. 1 lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a drop in the ocean
九牛二虎之力
jiǔ niú èr hǔ zhī lì
  1. 1 tremendous strength (idiom)
九霄云外
jiǔ xiāo yún wài
  1. 1 beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)
  2. 2 unimaginably far away
哀鸿遍野
āi hóng biàn yě
  1. 1 lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims
  2. 2 starving people fill the land
坚壁清野
jiān bì qīng yě
  1. 1 to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom); to leave nothing for the invader
  2. 2 scorched earth policy
漫山遍野
màn shān biàn yě
  1. 1 lit. covering the mountains and the plains (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. as far as the eye can see
  3. 3 covering everything
  4. 4 omnipresent
狼子野心
láng zǐ yě xīn
  1. 1 ambition of wild wolves (idiom); rapacious designs
空室清野
kōng shì qīng yě
  1. 1 empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy
  2. 2 scorched earth policy
行百里者半九十
xíng bǎi lǐ zhě bàn jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets
  3. 3 a task is not done until it's done
饿莩遍野
è piǎo biàn yě
  1. 1 starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine
龙生九子
lóng shēng jiǔ zǐ
  1. 1 lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters
  2. 2 good and bad intermingled
  3. 3 It takes all sorts to make a world.

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