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星

星

See also: 曐 and 皨

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

References

  • 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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 星

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (生) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
猜 *sʰlɯː
輤 *sʰleːns
綪 *sʰleːns, *ʔsreːŋ
倩 *sʰleːns, *sʰleŋs
棈 *sʰleːns
蒨 *sʰeːns
篟 *sʰeːns
生 *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs
牲 *sreŋ
笙 *sreŋ
甥 *sreŋ
鉎 *sreŋ, *sleːŋ
珄 *sreŋ
鼪 *sreŋ, *sreŋs
猩 *sreŋ, *seːŋ
狌 *sreŋ
眚 *sreŋʔ
貹 *sreŋs
崝 *zreːŋ
精 *ʔsleŋ, *ʔsleŋs
菁 *ʔsleŋ
鶄 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ
蜻 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ
鼱 *ʔsleŋ
婧 *ʔsleŋ, *zleŋs, *zleŋʔ
睛 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleŋʔ
箐 *ʔsleŋ
聙 *ʔsleŋ
旌 *ʔsleŋ
清 *sʰleŋ
圊 *sʰleŋ
請 *sʰleŋʔ, *zleŋs, *zleŋ
凊 *sʰleŋs
䝼 *zleŋs, *zleŋ
靚 *zleŋs
情 *zleŋ
晴 *zleŋ
夝 *zleŋ
靜 *zleŋʔ
靖 *zleŋʔ
睲 *seŋʔ, *seːŋs
惺 *seŋʔ, *seːŋ
性 *sleŋs
姓 *sleŋs
靗 *l̥ʰeŋs
鯖 *ʔljeŋ, *sʰleːŋ
青 *sʰleːŋ
靘 *sʰleːŋ, *sʰleːŋs
掅 *sʰleːŋs
胜 *sleːŋ
曐 *sleːŋ
星 *sleːŋ
鮏 *sleːŋ
腥 *seːŋ, *seːŋs
鯹 *seːŋ
醒 *seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs
篂 *seːŋ

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

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 星
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕiŋ²¹/
Jinan /ɕiŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /siŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /siŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiŋ²¹/
Xining /ɕiə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕĩn³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕin⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕin⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕin⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕĩ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /sin³¹/
Hefei /ɕin²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕi¹¹/ ～宿
/ɕiəŋ¹¹/ 五～
Pingyao /ɕiŋ¹³/
/sei¹³/ 掃帚～
Hohhot /ɕĩŋ³¹/ 星～
/ɕi³¹/ 河～～
Wu Shanghai /ɕiŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /sin⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕin³³/
Wenzhou /seŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /siʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /sɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /din³³/
Xiangtan /sian³³/
/sin³³/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɑŋ⁴²/
/ɕin⁴²/ ～子縣
Hakka Meixian /sen⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /sen²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /seŋ⁵³/
Nanning /ɬɛŋ⁵⁵/
/ɬeŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /siŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /siŋ⁵⁵/
/t͡sʰĩ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /siŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /saiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰẽ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /seŋ²³/
/sɛ²³/
Rime
Character 星
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 桑經切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /seŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /seŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɛjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /seŋ/
Wang
Li		 /sieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xīng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 星
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xīng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ seng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-tsʰˤeŋ/
English star

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 星
Reading # 1/1
No. 11371
Phonetic
component		 生
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 星
Old
Chinese		 /*sleːŋ/
Notes 説文曐或體

Definitions

星

  1. star; planet; heavenly body
    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. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

星

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. star

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
星
ほし
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

/posi/ → /fosi/ → /hoɕi/

From Old Japanese. Possible cognates include Korean 별 ‎(byeol, “star”) and Manchu ᡠᠰᡳᡥᠠ ‎(usiha, “star”).

Pronunciation

Noun

星 ‎(hiragana ほし, romaji hoshi)

  1. 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 kagayaiteiru
    an endless number of stars are shining
  2. (tarot): the Star: the seventeenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional tarot decks

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

Proper noun

星 ‎(hiragana ほし, romaji Hoshi)

  1. A surname​.

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

星 • ‎(seong)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 성 (revised: seong, McCune-Reischauer: sŏng, Yale: seng)
  • Name (hangeul): 별 (revised: byeol, McCune-Reischauer: byŏl)
  1. star, planet

compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

星 (tinh)

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