"nine"

Translation: きゅう

[sandeep333]

Can someone write all the numbers from one to ten

[RockJoe]

(1) いち
(2) に
(3) さん
(4) よん or し
(5) ご
(6) ろく
(7) なな or しち
(8) はち
(9) きゅう
(10) じゅう

[ScorchYRR]

Why are there options for 4 and 7?

[samertabbal]

Because し『死』also means death 。

[AdamScott794079]

Did you know that this has actualy created an irational fear of the number four, tetrophobia?

[nadgerz]

Reminds me of this, for 'our' culture:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/triskaidekaphobia

[Nimajita]

よん(四) and なな(七) are, for everyones information, basically stolen from another ("more Japanese", "older") way to say numbers. Sometimes still used. The numbers would then go ひとつ(1) ふたつ(2) みっつ(3) よっつ(4) et cetera. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Anton906589]

Counting ...cupa?

[deirakos]

Hitotsu is mor like first iirc. Numbers are a delicatesituation in japanese because they have doffernt words for different situation. For example counting cupa has a different word than counting people

[kt.1510]

The numbers with tsu are used to count certain objects.

[Eon3000]

Can't 9 also be ku ?

[Nik695389]

Yes it can

[PianistKevin]

一(ichi)二(ni)三(san)四(yong/shi)五(go)六(roku)七(nana)八(hachi)九(kyuu)十(juu)

[Andrs756785]

What's the purpose of ゆ? It's like when they use つ to glue two characters? What are these called?

[kt.1510]

The small つ creates a pause in the middle of the word when said in Japanese. It also doubles the first letter of the next character when written in romaji. (きっぷ is written as kippu)

[s13579]

Small ゆ combines き and ゆ together and reads as kyu.

[kai19154]

they're called small hiragana, and yeah. this one puts a y sound between two characters

[Yan41282]

九 is wrong？I can't understand.

[darkcheesypuff]

I think they just over looked it. From what I've learned the admins have to input accepted answer.

I got this wrong too.
22 Nov 20
Went a head and reported it.

[Ang598564]

It said I was wrong when I put 九 as well. I also reported it (Nov 22 20202)

[Crazy_plant_lady]

The kyuubi or nine-tailed fox from Naruto... anime makes it so much easier than usual to remember these words

[xtiancan]

How come it's pronounced Kyu and spelt as
Ki Yu U

[AgentLuigi3]

That's because the 'yu' is smaller. When 'ya', 'yu', or 'yo' appears smaller, it will always come after a character that ends in 'i' (such as ki or shi) and it is combined. In this case, きゅう is pronounced "kyuu".

[Nanya843194]

Why isnt the kanji accepted here?

Is accepted 12/3/2020

[Ang598564]

I wrote 九 and it said my answer was wrong? Does anyone know why?

[HeruPraset18]

why is 九 marked as wrong

[SherylHohman]

I thought the small yo, not this character, was to create the "y" sound. (Hence I choose that answer).
So, what's this small hiragana called.
More importantly though, what's the small hiragana "yo" do for pronunciation ? - since I obviously leaned something backwards.

[s13579]

If you put a small よ the word has to be read as kyoo. Because small characters combines itself with the previous character.

[Yan41282]

Why is 9 wrong？

[Raneen6]

九 was not accepted for "Nine"...

[Himari-Shinoku]

Ok、why is it not きゆう？ Like why is ゅ smaller then ゆ ？

[Nanya843194]

きゅう　with the smaller ゆ　is akin to saying kyuu (the word we're looking for)

きゆう　with the bigger ゆ　is akin to saying kiyuu, and isn't what we're looking for. Smaller letters modify the letter before them (though not all letters as you learn more you'll figure it out, it's mostly the i letters though with some exceptions.

[VictoriaBr990241]

I'm using a Japanese keyboar do type きゆう and it keeps saying it's wrong??? Very confused

[Swisidniak]

Note the size of the ゆ; it isn't the normal "Yu" kana, but the small ゅ that modifies the sound that comes before it
きゆう says "KiYuu" which makes three syllables and would be incorrect
きゅう is written and pronounced "Kyuu" only two syllables and means "nine"
Type "Kyu" instead of "Ki yu"