Character Details
| star | Ascii: 20108 | w873 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 星 | xīng | tsing | 1 | 日 (sun) + 生 (life) → star | 星 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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The sun is the nearest star to the only planet with life — Earth. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
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| - Can you come back before Friday? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 30 - 方 | fāng | sun | square | slant + box | 方 旅 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 日 (sun) + 生 (life) → star | 日 (semantic) | 生 (phonetic) | phonetic from 生 | ||||||||