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
- —随星companion star
- —渡星going to Singapore
- —母星homeworld; home planet; mother planet
- —星系star system
- —異星different planet; another planet
- —魁星first star of the Big Dipper; top applicant in the civil service examination (Imperial China)
- —星列asterism; lining up (like a row of stars)
- —主星primary star
- —星章star (badge)
- —星震stellar oscillation; starquake
- —行星planet
- —凶星star of bad omen
- —首星brightest star in a constellation; Alpha
- —辰星celestial bodies; stars; bright star used for timekeeping (e.g. Sirius); Mercury (in ancient Chinese astronomy); Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
- —五星the five planets (in ancient Chinese astronomy; Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus and Mercury); five stars
- —狼星Sirius; Dog Star
- —占星astrology
- —竜星Ryūsei (professional go title)
- —星漢Milky Way
- —星界Seikai (series of science fiction novels by Hiroyuki Morioka)