星
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star; heavenly body; satellite; small amount
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 日 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 星
- Common rank
- #153
- Unicode
- U+661F
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 星
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 星期天 | Sunday | |
| 星期日 | Sunday | |
| 星期 | week; CL:個|个[ge4]; day of the week; Sunday | |
| 中子星 | neutron star | |
| 小行星 | asteroid; minor planet | |
| 水星 | (astronomy) Mercury | |
| 外星人 | space alien; extraterrestrial | |
| 星马 | Singapore and Malaysia (abbr. for 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1], aka 星洲[Xing1 zhou1] + 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 … | |
| 火星子 | (coll.) spark; ember | |
| 星家 | astrologist (in former times) | |
| 星相学 | astrology | |
| 火星人 | Martian | |
| 海星 | starfish; sea star | |
| 海星机场 | nickname of Beijing Daxing International Airport 北京大興國際機場|北京大兴国际机场[Bei3 jing1 Da4 xing1 Gu… | |
| 金星 | Venus (planet) | |
| 金星 | gold star; stars (that one sees from blow to the head etc) | |
| 行星 | planet; CL:顆|颗[ke1] | |
| 三合星 | (astronomy) triple star system | |
| 星巴克 | Starbucks, US coffee shop chain | |
| 星相家 | astrologer |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 生 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生 sound part | life, lifetime; birth; growth | |
| 性 | sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective | |
| 胜 | victory; to excel, to truimph | |
| 姓 | name, family name, surname; clan, people | |
| 牲 | sacrificial animal; domestic animal | |
| 笙 | free reed mouth organ | |
| 甥 | niece, nephew; sister's child | |
| 旌 | to signal; a flag adorned with feathers | |
| 眚 | cataract; fault, error, crime |