惑星

惑星

1. (astronomy, rare) Synonym of 行星 (xíngxīng).

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

Coined in 1792 by Dutch-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”).

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) わくせー [wàkúséé] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠kɯ̟ᵝse̞ː]

惑星 (hiragana わくせい, rōmaji wakusei)

1. (astronomy) planet

   あの星 (ほし)は恒 (こう)星 (せい)じゃなくて、惑星 (わくせい)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

   政界 (せいかい)の惑星 (わくせい)

   seikai no wakusei

   a dark horse in the political world

• (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)}

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