1 nine

2 9

1 surname Jiang

1 south of Changjiang or Yangtze river

2 south of the lower reaches of Changjiang

3 often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces

4 a province during Qing times

5 in literature, refers to the sunny south

6 Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)

1 Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qú zhōu], Zhejiang

1 rivers and lakes

2 all corners of the country

3 remote areas to which hermits retreat

4 section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law

5 the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá])

6 (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc

7 demimonde

8 (in modern times) triads

9 secret gangster societies

10 underworld

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 to reach for the stars (idiom)

1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape

2 new lease of life

1 lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom)

2 fig. a drop in the ocean