xīng
a star
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 生 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
(~1200 - 221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
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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