Nine years' reserve

Nine years' reserve

Nine year reserve, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji ǔ Ni á nzh ī ch ǔ, which means nine year reserve. It means that the state has some savings in case of emergency. From Huainanzi zhushuxun.

Analysis of Idioms

Nine years of life

Idiom usage

Every family should have a reserve of nine years.

The origin of Idioms

In Huainanzi zhushuxun written by Liu An of the Western Han Dynasty, "there are six years in eighteen years, and nine years in twenty-seven years."