星

星 (radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日竹手一 (AHQM), four-corner 6010₄, composition ⿱日生)

• 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

Originally 曐 (OC *sleːŋ), which is a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sleːŋ) : semantic 晶 (“twinkling stars”) + phonetic 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs).

Baxter and Sagart (2014) reconstructs the Old Chinese as *s-tsʰˤeŋ, which can be analysed as a verbal root *tsʰˤeŋ (“bright”) with a prefix *s-. This reconstruction accounts for the Min initial *tsh- and the use of the character to write the word 晴 (OC *N-tsʰeŋ).

Possibly related to 清 (OC *sʰleŋ, “clear”) (Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2014), in turn from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)s(j)aŋ (“clear; pure; clean”).

Proto-Kiranti *saŋ (“star”) either develops from a parallel Sino-Tibetan root (Schuessler, 2007) or derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kar (“star”) (STEDT).

星

Five-pointed star shape

1. star; planet; heavenly body (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 粒 c mn)

   星星  ―  xīngxing  ―  star

   恆星 / 恒星  ―  héngxīng  ―  (fixed) star

2. star-shaped object
3. star; celebrity

   明星  ―  míngxīng  ―  bright star; celebrity

4. weight marks on a steelyard
5. a bit; a tiny bit
6. tiny; minute
7. whitish; white
8. numerous and scattered everywhere; countless
9. rapid; flying
10. (dated or informal) Short for 星加坡 (Xīngjiāpō, “Singapore”).

    星馬泰 / 星马泰  ―  Xīng Mǎ Tài  ―  Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand

11. A surname​.

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. star

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō, uncommon)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
• Kun: ほし (hoshi, 星, Jōyō)

/posi/ → /fosi/ → /hoɕi/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pəsi. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ほし [hòshí] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ho̞ɕi]

星 (hiragana ほし, rōmaji hoshi)

1. a star

   数 (かぞ)え切 (き)れないくらいたくさんの星 (ほし)が輝 (かがや)いている

   kazoekirenai kurai takusan no hoshi ga kagayaite iru

   an endless number of stars are shining

   • 2014 May 2, “レオニンの偶ぐう像ぞう破は壊かい者しゃ [Leonin Iconoclast]”, in ニクスへの旅 [Journey into Nyx], Wizards of the Coast:

     「星 (ほし)々 (ぼし)は夜 (よ)空 (ぞら)にあるべきです。ここは我 (われ)々 (われ)の世 (せ)界 (かい)。そして我 (われ)々 (われ)の事 (こと)は我 (われ)々 (われ)が決 (き)めます。」

     “Hoshiboshi wa yozora ni aru beki desu. Koko wa wareware no sekai. Soshite wareware no koto wa wareware ga kimemasu.”

     “The stars belong in the night sky. This is our world. And we take matters into our own hands.”

2. (tarot) the Star
3. (loosely) Synonym of 惑星 (wakusei, “planet”)
   • 2009 March 30 [Jan 23 2004], Takeuchi, Naoko, “Actアクト 29トゥエンティナイン　無む限げん３スリー　２人ふたり NEWニュー SOLDIERSソルジャーズ [Act 29: Infinity 3: 2 NEW SOLDIERS]”, in 美少女戦士Pretty GuardianセーラームーンSAILORMOON [Pretty Guardian SAILOR MOON], volume 6 (fiction), 6th edition, Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 181–183:

     ——海 (うみ)の星 (ほし)海 (かい)王 (おう)星 (せい)を守 (しゅ)護 (ご)にもつ深 (しん)海 (かい)の戦 (せん)士 (し)——セーラーネプチューン

     ——Umi no Hoshi Kaiōsei o shugo ni motsu shinkai no senshi ——Sērā Nepuchūn

     ——Warrior of the depths, keeper of Neptune the Sea Planet ——Sailor Neptune

     そして——風 (かぜ)の星 (ほし)天 (てん)王 (のう)星 (せい)を守 (しゅ)護 (ご)にもつ天 (てん)空 (くう)の戦 (せん)士 (し)　セーラーウラヌス　参 (さん)上 (じょう)！

     Soshite ——Kaze no Hoshi Tennōsei o shugo ni motsu tenkū no senshi Sērā Uranusu sanjō!

     And I am ——the warrior of the ether, keeper of Uranus the Wind Planet. Sailor Uranus enters the scene!

   • 2005 November 9, Watsuki, Nobuhiro, “武ブ装ソウ錬レン金キンファイナル [Armed Alchemy: The Final Act]”, in 武ブ装ソウ錬レン金キン [Armed Alchemy], volume 9, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

     ………その覚 (かく)悟 (ご)　一 (いっ)体 (たい)どこから……？

     ………Sono kakugo Ittai doko kara……?

     ………Such resolve. Where did you get it from……?

     もちろん！あの惑 (ほ)星 (し)から　あそこには守 (まも)りたい人 (ひと)達 (たち)が大 (おお)勢 (ぜい)いる　一 (いち)番 (ばん)…守 (まも)りたい人 (ひと)がいる

     Mochiron! Ano hoshi kara Asoko ni wa mamoritai hitotachi ga ōzei iru Ichiban… mamoritai hito ga iru

     Of course! From that planet. Where there are many people I sworn to protect. But most of all… where there’s the one person I sworn to protect.

星 (hiragana ほし, rōmaji Hoshi)

1. A surname​.

From Middle Chinese 星 (MC seŋ, “star”).

The Singapore sense derives from the pre-World War Two kanji spelling 星加坡 (modern kanji spelling 新加坡) as borrowed from Chinese, itself a transliteration of Malay Singapura.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) せ​ー [séꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [se̞ː]
• Note: the pitch accent for the suffix is determined by the entire term.

星 (hiragana せい, rōmaji Sei)

1. one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions in the Chinese system of constellations
2. (abbreviation) Singapore

星 (hiragana せい, rōmaji -sei)

1. (loosely, especially fiction) planet (suffix attached to the name of a planet)
   • 1996 February 20 [Feb 15 1988], Adachi, Mitsuru, “なにがなんだか 前編 [What’s What: First Chapter]”, in SHORT PROGRAMショート・プログラム [SHORT PROGRAM], volume 1 (fiction), 25th edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 256:

     ——あ、わたくしマキシムＡＧＦです。リプトン星 (せい)からやってまいりました。地 (ち)球 (きゅう)の寒 (さむ)さにおどろいてます。どぞよろしく。

     ——A, watakushi Makishimu Ējīefu desu. Riputon-sei kara yatte mairimashita. Chikyū no samusa ni odoroitemasu. Dozo yoroshiku.

     ——Oh, my name is Maxim AGF. I came here from planet Lipton. I’m still taken aback by Earth’s coldness. It is a pleasure to meet all of you.

• 輝 (き)星 (せい) (kisei, “bright star”)

星 (eumhun 별 성 (byeol seong))

1. star, planet

• 행성 (haengseong)(行星) planet
• 혜성 (hyeseong)(彗星) comet
• 유성 (yuseong)(流星) meteor
• 유성우 (yuseong-u)(流星雨) meteor shower
• 위성 (wiseong)(衛星) satellite
• 인공위성 (in-gong-wiseong)(人工衛星) artificial satellite
• 수성 (suseong)(水星) Mercury
• 금성 (geumseong)(金星) Venus
• 화성 (hwaseong)(火星) Mars
• 목성 (mokseong)(木星) Jupiter
• 토성 (toseong)(土星) Saturn
• 천왕성 (cheonwangseong)(天王星) Uranus
• 해왕성 (haewangseong)(海王星) Neptune
• 명왕성 (myeong-wangseong)(冥王星) Pluto
• 성학 (seonghak)(星學)=천문학 (cheonmunhak)(天文學) astronomy
• 성조기 (seongjogi)(星條旗) the American flag
• 오성홍기 (oseonghonggi)(五星紅旗) the Chinese flag
• 금성홍기 (geumseonghonggi)(金星紅旗) the Vietnamese flag

星 (tinh)

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