玖
jiǔ

black-colored jade

玖 jiǔ
black jade noun
a type of dark stone resembling jade, often used in classical literature

投我以木李，报之以琼玖。

tóu wǒ yǐ mù​lǐ, bào zhī yǐ qióng jiǔ.

'You threw me a plum, and I repaid you with a beautiful jade.'

nine noun
the complex formal character for the number nine, used in financial contexts to prevent fraud

在填写支票时，数字九必须写成大写的“玖”。

zài tián​xiě zhī​piào shí, shù​zì jiǔ bì​xū xiě​chéng dà​xiě de“ jiǔ”.

When filling out a check, the number nine must be written in the formal capital form '玖'.

Frequency
Character
Written text
5,072nd most common 0.884 per million
Movie subtitles
3,926th most common 0.680 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.150 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.89 per million

Details
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+7396

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)