九つ

• 読み: ここのつ
• ローマ字: kokonotsu
• 漢字の分解: 九 (kokono) — nine; つ is a native counter suffix
• 発音: /ko.ko.no.tsɯ/

意味

Nine (things). The native Japanese counter for nine, used for general objects.

Part of the native Japanese counting system. Uses the ここの reading of 九, the longest of the native number words. The next number in the sequence is とお (ten), which does not use つ. After nine, the native counting system is rarely used for larger numbers in modern Japanese.

例文

1. 飴が九つあります。
2. 九つの質問に答えてください。
3. お皿が九つ必要です。

使い方ガイド

場面: counting objects, daily life, formal enumeration

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From the native Japanese ここの (nine) plus the counter suffix つ. This is the longest word in the ひとつ–ここのつ series.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal