First: one can (hear) talk about a square root. We might say that a number $a$ is a square root of $b$ is $a^2 = b$. In this sense both $3$ and $-3$ are square roots of $9$.
Second: Most of the time (IMO) when one comes across the radical sign $\sqrt{}$, then one is thinking about the square root also known as the principal square root. For the non-negative real numbers, the square root of $b\geq 0$ is then defined to the the unique positive number $a$ such that $a^2 = b$. Hence we say that the square root of $9$ is equal to $3$ and we write $\sqrt{9} = 3$. (Granted, one might consider the radical sign as denoting the set consisting of all the square roots of a number). Note that for this setup we think og $\sqrt{}$ as a function from $[0,\infty) \to [0,\infty)$.
For complex numbers we also can talk about a square root or the (principal) square root. For the square root of a complex number $z = re^{i\theta}$, with $r\geq 0$ and $-\pi < \theta \leq \pi$ one usually defined the square root as: $\sqrt{re^{i\theta}} = \sqrt{r}e^{i\theta/2}$. So with this definition we have $\begin{align} \sqrt{i} &= \sqrt{e^{i\pi/2}} = e^{i\pi/4} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(1+i) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} + \frac{i}{\sqrt{2}} \\ \sqrt{-i} &= \sqrt{e^{i(-\pi/2)}} = e^{-i\pi/4} = -\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(1+i). \end{align} $ And you would then get for example $\sqrt{9i} = \frac{3}{\sqrt{2}}(1+i)$.
Graphically you would then represent $\sqrt{9i}$ as the point $(\frac{3}{\sqrt{2}},\frac{3}{\sqrt{2}})$
Note that with this definition certain familiar rules don't hold. You for example do not have that $\sqrt{ab} = \sqrt{w}\sqrt{z}$ for all complex numbers $w$ and $z$. If you did, then you would have $ \begin{align} 1 &= \sqrt{1} \\ &= \sqrt{(-1)(-1)} \\ &= \sqrt{-1}\sqrt{-1}\\ &= i\cdot i\\ &= -1. \end{align} $