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
- —将星commander
- —連星binary star
- —歳星Jupiter
- —星辰celestial bodies; stars
- —複星multiple star
- —宿星star of fate; a zodiac
- —輔星Alcor; the Little Horseman star
- —星人person from (the planet of)
- —星表star catalog; star catalogue
- —昴星Chinese "Hairy Head" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Pleiades; Seven Sisters
- —星間interstellar
- —双星amphiaster; diaster; double star; visual double
- —星寿90th birthday
- —星官constellation (in ancient China; important constellations were then used to divide the ecliptic into 28 "mansions")
- —客星celestial body seen only for a short time (e.g. comet)
- —星群asterism; pattern of stars which do not form a constellation
- —星河Milky Way
- —鎮星Saturn (planet)
- —填星Saturn (planet)
- —星彩asterism (gemmology); optical star pattern in polished gemstones; starlight