星
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Translingual[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Phono-semantic compound (形聲) Originally 曐. The upper part 晶 is the semantic, and is shaped like twinkling stars. The lower part 生 is the phonetic.
Or, 晶 is the sound. (?)
Han character[edit]
星 (radical 72 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日竹手一 (AHQM), four-corner 60104, composition ⿱日生)
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 492, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13837
- Dae Jaweon: page 855, character 22
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1500, character 12
- Unihan data for U+661F
Cantonese[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
星 (jyutping sing1, Yale sing1)
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
Readings[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Compounds
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Etymology[edit]
From Old Japanese. Possibly cognate with Korean 별 (byeol, “star”) and Manchu ᡠᠰᡳᡥᠠ (usiha, “star”).
/posi/ > /ɸosi/ > /hoɕi/
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
星 (kyūjitai 皨, hiragana ほし, romaji hoshi)
- A star.
- (tarot): The Star; the seventeenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.
Coordinate terms[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- A surname.
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
星
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 성 (revised: seong, McCune-Reischauer: sŏng, Yale: seng)
- Name (hangeul): 별 (revised: byeol, McCune-Reischauer: byŏl)
Mandarin[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
星 (pinyin xīng (xing1), Wade-Giles hsing1)
Compounds[edit]
Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
星 (tinh)
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