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
- —恒星間interstellar
- —連星系binary system
- —大惑星major planet; giant planet; Jovian planet
- —二等星second magnitude star
- —星震学stellar seismology; asteroseismology; astroseismology
- —激変星cataclysmic variable; cataclysmic variable star; CV
- —流星体meteoroid
- —微惑星planetesimal
- —恒星図star map; star chart
- —大彗星great comet
- —惑星食lunar occultation of a planet
- —星室庁Court of the Star Chamber (England)
- —死兆星Star of Death (nickname for Alcor)
- —七芒星heptagram; septagram
- —九曜星(in Onmyōdō) divination of a person's fate based on the nine celestial bodies's positions at birth; nine luminaries
- —銀星石wavellite; brazilianite
- —小熊星Little Bear; Ursa Minor
- —金星食lunar occultation of Venus; occultation of Venus (by the Moon)
- —新星堂Shinseido (Japanese book, music and sporting goods retail chain)
- —孫衛星subsatellite; submoon; moonlet