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
- —超巨星supergiant (star)
- —流星群meteor swarm; meteor shower
- —三等星third magnitude star
- —衛星国satellite country; satellite state
- —牽牛星Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
- —超新星supernova
- —星雲説the nebular hypothesis
- —恒星年a sidereal year
- —電波星radio star
- —織女星Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae
- —火星年Martian year
- —食連星eclipsing variable
- —外惑星outer planet
- —五車星Auriga (constellation); the Charioteer
- —天帝星Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star
- —占星学astrology
- —五芒星pentagram (as used in divination, etc.)
- —矮惑星dwarf planet
- —幾星霜many months and years
- —原始星protostar