星
Meanings
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- 1.star
- 2.heavenly body
- 3.satellite
- 4.small amount
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Wiktionary
- 1.star (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 粒 c mn)
- 2.planet; heavenly body
- 3.star-shaped object
- 4.particle; tiny bits and pieces
- 5.star; celebrity; famous person; someone who is the subject of attention
- 6.weight marks on a steelyard
- 7.tiny; minute
- 8.Star mansion (one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations)
- 9.numerous and scattered everywhere; countless
- 10.whitish; white
- 11.rapid; flying
- 12.to slap someone in the face
- 13.a surname, Xing
- 14.synonym of 碰鈴 /碰铃 (pènglíng)
- 15.a surname in Hindi, सिंह (siṅh) or Punjabi, ਸਿੰਘ (siṅgh): Singh
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sleːŋ): phonetic 晶 (OC *ʔsleŋ, “twinkling stars”) + phonetic 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs). 晶 originally referred to this word; a phonetic 生 was added later (Ji Xusheng, 2004). 晶 was later simplified into 日. Baxter and Sagart (2014) reconstructs the Old Chinese as *s-tsʰˤeŋ, which can be analysed as a verbal root *tsʰˤeŋ (“bright”) with a prefix *s-. This reconstruction accounts for the Min initial *tsh- and the use of the character to write the word 晴 (OC *N-tsʰeŋ). Possibly related to 清 (OC *sʰleŋ, “clear”) (Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2014), in turn from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)s(j)aŋ (“clear; pure; clean”). Proto-Kiranti *saŋ (“star”) either develops from a parallel Sino-Tibetan root (Schuessler, 2007) or derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sV-kar (“star”) (STEDT).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
金星沒有衛星。
Venus doesn’t have any moons.
木星有幾個衛星？
How many moons does Jupiter have?
火星有兩個衛星。
Mars has two moons.
美国国旗有五十颗星。
The American flag has fifty stars.
許多衛星繞著土星運行。
Many moons orbit around Saturn.
天文學涉及恆星和行星。
Astronomy deals with the stars and planets.
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Derived terms
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