Chinese Character Wiki
星

xīng

a star

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 生 represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

生 sound component

生  Sound component

shēng

  

life

Evolution

星 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
星 Bronze script (~1200 - 221 BC)

Bronze script

(~1200 - 221 BC)
星 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
星 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
星 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

星  

xīng

a star, planet; any point of light; star; heavenly body; satellite; small amount

Most common words with 星
Freq.
Word
Meaning

星

star

星期

week

明星

star

卫星

moon

星球

heavenly body

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

惺

Sound component in 5 characters (1 verified)

醒 猩 腥 惺 戥

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-tsʰˤeŋ

seng

xīng

star


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 72.3050% of movies

349th most common character in movies

537th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+661F

Shuowen

“曐，萬物之精，上為列星。从晶，生聲。一曰象形，从口，古口復注中，故與日同。，古文星。星，曐或省。”


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