Kanji1 / 9
星 kanji
star, spot, dot, mark
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
セイショウ
Kun readings
ほし-ぼし
Variant forms
皨Words with 星
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —五紡星pentagram (as used in divination, etc.)
- —２等星second magnitude star
- —金星蝕lunar occultation of Venus; occultation of Venus (by the Moon)
- —カニ星雲Crab Nebula
- —ハリー彗星Halley's comet
- —白色わい星white dwarf
- —赤色わい星red dwarf
- —褐色わい星brown dwarf
- —黒色わい星black dwarf
- —ガリレオ衛星Galilean moons (four largest moons of Jupiter); Galilean satellites
- —オッパイ星人man overly interested in women's breasts
- —双子座流星群Geminids
- —プレヤデス星団Pleiades star cluster
- —彗星の様に現れるto become famous overnight; to burst into fame
- —ヘールボップ彗星Comet Hale-Bopp
- —すい星のように現れるto become famous overnight; to burst into fame
- —彗星のようにあらわれるto become famous overnight; to burst into fame