昴

Translingual

Han character

昴 (radical 72 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日竹竹中 (AHHL), four-corner 6072₇)

1. one of the 28 constellations, the Pleiades

References

• KangXi: page 494, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13865
• Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1503, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6634

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Cantonese

Hanzi

昴 (Yale maau5)

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Japanese

Kanji

昴 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: ボウ (bō), モウ (mō)
• Nanori: すばる (Subaru), すまる (Sumaru), たかし (Takashi), のぼる (Noboru)

Etymology 1

By extension from 統ばる (subaru, “to bunch together; to unite”), due to the way the stars in the constellation all cluster together.

Proper noun

昴 (hiragana すばる, romaji Subaru)

1. the Pleiades (star cluster)

Etymology 2

Character borrowed for its meaning. See 熟字訓 (jukujikun) for details.

Proper noun

昴 (hiragana すまる, romaji Sumaru)

昴 (hiragana たかし, romaji Takashi)

昴 (hiragana のぼる, romaji Noboru)

1. a masculine given name

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Korean

Hanja

昴 (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune-Reischauer myo, Yale myo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

昴 (pinyin mǎo (mao3), nǐ (ni3), zhì (zhi4), Wade-Giles mao³, ni³, chih⁴)

Proper noun

昴

1. the Pleiades (star cluster)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昴 (mão, máu)