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to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)

Beethoven's Ninth

the Double Ninth Festival (9th day of the 9th lunar month)

walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)

Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016

lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters; good and bad intermingled; It takes all sorts to make a world.

December 9th Movement (1935), student protest movement calling for resistance to Japanese aggression

one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight

the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year

the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists); fig. people from all trades (often derog.)

lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom); fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation; in dire straits

(of a widow) faithful to the death to her husband's memory

to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)

the lowest professions

nine-ball (billiards game)

the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria; also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳條溝事變|柳条沟事变

Jiusan Society, one of the eight political parties of the CCP

multiplication table

stinking intellectual (contemptuous term for educated people during the Cultural Revolution)

lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom); fig. the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets; a task is not done until it's done