惑星

Chinese

		confuse	star; satellite; small amount
simp. and trad. (惑星)		惑	星

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huòxīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄒㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waak⁶ sing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huòxīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄒㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huòsing
    • Wade–Giles: huo⁴-hsing¹
    • Yale: hwò-syīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huohshing
    • Palladius: хосин (xosin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ⁵¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waak⁶ sing¹
    • Yale: waahk sīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waak⁹ sing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wag⁶ xing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːk̚² sɪŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 惑星

1. (astronomy, rare) Template:zh-synonym (Classifier: 顆／颗 m)

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Japanese

惑星 (wakusei): a collection of planets.

Kanji in this term
惑	星
わく Grade: S	せい Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

Wasei kango: Calque of Dutch dwaalster (literally, “wander star”).

Coined in 1792 by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch-(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese translator Motoki Yoshinaga in his translation of Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium and its heliocentric model. Sinic compound of 惑 (waku, “to move about confusedly, to wander”) +‎ 星 (sei, “star”).

Noun

惑(わく)星(せい) • (wakusei) 

1. (astronomy) planet

   あの星(ほし)は恒(こう)星(せい)じゃなくて、惑(わく)星(せい)です。

   Ano hoshi wa kōsei ja nakute, wakusei desu.

   That light isn't a star, it's a planet.

2. (obsolete) a dark horse

   政(せい)界(かい)の惑(わく)星(せい)

   seikai no wakusei

   a dark horse in the political world

See also

• (planets of the Solar System) 太(たい)陽(よう)系(けい)の惑(わく)星(せい) (Taiyōkei no wakusei); 水(すい)星(せい) (Suisei, “Mercury”), 金(きん)星(せい) (Kinsei, “Venus”), 地(ち)球(きゅう) (Chikyū, “Earth”), 火(か)星(せい) (Kasei, “Mars”), 木(もく)星(せい) (Mokusei, “Jupiter”), 土(ど)星(せい) (Dosei, “Saturn”), 天(てん)王(のう)星(せい) (Tennōsei, “Uranus”), 海(かい)王(おう)星(せい) (Kaiōsei, “Neptune”) ^{(Category: ja:Planets of the Solar System)}

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.