9

Glyph origin
A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ). See for more.

Symbol

 * 1) The cardinal number nine.
 * 2) A digit in the decimal system of numbering, and also hexadecimal.
 * 3)  tone number 9, in some cases when the language does not have the usual 4 to 8 categories.

Alternative forms
The following are equivalent forms as digits:

The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:


 * : [[Image:LSQ 9.jpg|35px]]

Noun

 * 1)   900&deg; spin

Etymology
and are near homophones in Cantonese.