星

星 U+661F, 星 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-661F ← 昞 [U+661E] CJK Unified Ideographs 映 → [U+6620]

Stroke order

星 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日竹手一 (AHQM), four-corner 6010₄, composition ⿱日生)

• 惺, 湦, 猩, 暒, 煋, 瑆, 腥, 睲, 䃏, 䗌, 謃, 醒, 鍟(𰾝), 鯹(𬶢), 戥, 篂

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 492, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13837
• Dae Jaweon: page 855, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1500, character 12
• Unihan data for U+661F

simp. and trad.		星
alternative forms		曐 𠻖 𤯢 皨 𤾪 曐 𠻖 𤯢 皨 𤾪 𤽛 𰣀 𭥕 〇

Simplified from 曐 (晶 → 日), which is a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sleːŋ): semantic 晶 (“twinkling stars”) + phonetic 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs).

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).

星

1. star (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 粒 c mn)

   星星  ―  xīngxing  ―  star

2. planet; heavenly body

   恆星／恒星  ―  héngxīng  ―  (fixed) star

3. star-shaped object

   五角星  ―  wǔjiǎoxīng  ―  pentagram

4. particle; tiny bits and pieces

   火星子  ―  huǒxīngzǐ  ―  sparks of fire

5. star; celebrity; famous person; someone who is the subject of attention

   明星  ―  míngxīng  ―  bright star; celebrity

   救星  ―  jiùxīng  ―  liberator; emancipator; savior

6. weight marks on a steelyard

   秤星  ―  chèngxīng  ―  gradations marked on the beam of a steelyard

7. tiny; minute

   零星  ―  língxīng  ―  fragmentary

8. Star mansion (one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations)
9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) numerous and scattered everywhere; countless

   星羅棋布／星罗棋布  ―  xīngluóqíbù  ―  to be spread all over the place; to be dotted with

10. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) whitish; white
11. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) rapid; flying

    星馳／星驰  ―  xīngchí  ―  to sprint; to speed

12. (dated or informal) short for 星加坡 (Xīngjiāpō, “Singapore”)

    星馬泰／星马泰  ―  Xīng Mǎ Tài  ―  Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand

    星式英語／星式英语  ―  Xīngshì Yīngyǔ  ―  Singlish

13. (Cantonese) to slap someone in the face
14. a surname, Xing
15. synonym of 碰鈴 / 碰铃 (pènglíng)

• (star):

星

1. a surname in Hindi or Punjabi, सिंह (siṅh) or ਸਿੰਘ (siṅgh): Singh

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō ^†)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
• Kun: ほし (hoshi, 星, Jōyō)

Kanji in this term
星
ほし Grade: 2
kun'yomi

/posi/ → /ɸoɕi/ → /hoɕi/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pəsi.

• (Tokyo) ほし [hòshí] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ho̞ɕi]

星(ほし) • (hoshi) 

1. (astronomy) a star (luminous celestial body)

   Synonym: 恒星 (kōsei)

2. (geometry) a star (concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, especially used as a symbol to rate quality)
3. (tarot) the Star
4. (loosely) a celestial body

   Synonym: 天体 (tentai)

5. (poetic, especially fiction) planet

   See also: 星人 (seijin)

   この星(ほし)を守(まも)ると決(き)めた

   kono hoshi o mamoru to kimeta

   made the decision to protect Earth

6. (by extension of a star's movement) time, years
7. (sumo) a round mark indicating a victory or defeat in a bout
8. a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various representations of stars
9. a star (actor in a leading role)
10. an objective

    Synonym: 目星 (meboshi)

    1. (slang) the perp, the culprit
11. a kagura song sung at the end of a 御神楽 (mikagura)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:星.

• スター (sutā)

星(ほし) • (Hoshi) 

1. a surname

Kanji in this term
星
せい Grade: 2
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 星 (MC seng).

The Singapore sense derives from the pre-World War Two kanji spelling 星加坡 (modern kanji spelling 新加坡) as borrowed from Chinese, itself a transliteration of Malay Singapura.

• (Tokyo) せー [séꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [se̞ː]

• Note: the pitch accent for the suffix is determined by the entire term.

星(せい) • (Sei) 

1. (Chinese astronomy) one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions in the Chinese system of constellations
2. short for シンガポール (Shingapōru): Singapore

星(せい) • (-sei) 

1. (loosely, especially fiction) attached to names of planets
   • 1996 February 20 [1988 February 15], Mitsuru Adachi, “なにがなんだか 前編 [What’s What: First Chapter]”, in SHORT PROGRAM(ショート・プログラム) [SHORT PROGRAM], 25th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 256:

     ——あ、わたくしマキシムＡＧＦです。リプトン星(せい)からやってまいりました。地(ち)球(きゅう)の寒(さむ)さにおどろいてます。どぞよろしく。

     ——A, watakushi Makishimu Ējīefu desu. Riputon-sei kara yatte mairimashita. Chikyū no samusa ni odoroitemasu. Dozo yoroshiku.

     ——Oh, my name is Maxim AGF. I came here from planet Lipton. I’m still taken aback by Earth’s coldness. It is a pleasure to meet all of you.

星(せい) • (sei) 

1. star, celestial body

   星(せい)雲(うん) ― seiun ― nebula (literally, “star cloud”)

   星(せい)団(だん) ― seidan ― star cluster

   星(せい)図(ず) ― seizu ― star chart

2. passing of time
3. star, celebrity

From Middle Chinese 星 (MC seng).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448	셔ᇰ (Yale: syèng)
Middle Korean
Text	Eumhun
	Gloss (hun)	Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[1]	별〯 (Yale: pyěl)	셔ᇰ (Yale: syèng)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰʌ̹ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [성]

Wikisource

星 (eumhun 별 성 (byeol seong))

1. hanja form^? of 성 (“star; planet”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

From Proto-Japonic *pəsi.

星 (posi) (kana ほし)

1. a star

For quotations using this term, see Citations:星.

• 彦星 (Pi₁ko₁posi, “Altair”)

• Japanese: 星 (hoshi)

星: Hán Nôm readings: tinh, tình

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