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Kanji Detail for 昴 - "pleiades, subaru"

昴

  • Meaning

    昴 means "pleiades, subaru."

    1. Pleiades - A star cluster in the constellation Taurus.

    2. Subaru - The Japanese name for the Pleiades.

  • Origin of 昴

    日, the sun radical standing here for a star, over 卯, which supplies the reading bo. The character exists for one purpose: it names the Pleiades, one of the twenty-eight lunar lodges of ancient Chinese astronomy.

    How to remember it: A cluster of stars 日 named with a borrowed sound 卯 — the Pleiades, one of the sky's twenty-eight lodges.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: pleiades, subaru
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read すばる, すまる, たかし, のぼる)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 昴

    Given names 昴(すばる)Listen 昴(たかし)Listen

    Surnames 昴(すまる)Listen 昴(のぼる)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    the Pleiades

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    18th lunar mansion, determinative star 17 Tauri (Electra)

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    the Pleiades

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    one of the 28 constellations

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Star name. One of the twenty-eight lunar mansions.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    boh(ボウ) ボウ

    koh(コウ) コウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    subaru(すばる) すばる

  • Strokes

    tip

    9 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    日 (hi・hihen・nichi・nichihen)

  • Related Keywords

    pleiades subaru celestial cluster constellation star stellar astronomy sky taurus

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