1 nine

2 9

1 -ly

2 structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct

1 landlord

2 landowner

3 host

1 address

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 region

2 regional (away from the central administration)

3 local

1 to live miles apart (idiom)

1 failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly

2 a crushing defeat

3 beaten and in a hopeless position

1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight

1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)

2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation

3 in dire straits

1 lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)

2 fig. to go to great lengths

3 to search heaven and earth