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
- —九星nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope
- —七星the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow
- —重星multiple star
- —星雲nebula; galaxy
- —星図star map; star chart
- —星霜years; time
- —星団star cluster
- —星夜starry night; starlight night
- —流星meteor; shooting star; falling star
- —隕星meteor; falling star
- —星目the nine principal points (on a go board); star points; nine-stone handicap (with black stones placed on the star points)
- —星食occultation (by the Moon)
- —準星quasar; quasi-stellar object
- —遊星planet
- —矮星dwarf star
- —伴星companion star
- —照星bead (of a gun); front sight; foresight
- —星斗star
- —星学astronomy
- —星宿constellation; mansion (any of the Chinese constellations used to divide the ecliptic into 28 positions); Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)