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[1] any heavenly body that shines; star; planet; satellite; any point of light at the sky [2] [n] spark; sparks [3] droplets; small particles of anything; very tiny [4] name of one of the 28 constellations [5] [n] movie star [6] by night; nocturnal [7] an ancient percussion instrument [8] a Chinese family name [9] to slap [粵] Stroke count: 9
Level: 1
Radical: 日 (#72)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Don't confuse with: 皇徨惶遑里 |
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This word has been viewed 18359 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 20th Feb 2014 04:19 |
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星星
sing1 sing1 = star
星期一
sing1 kei4 jat1 = Monday
星期
sing1 kei4 = week
星期二
sing1 kei4 ji6 = Tuesday
星期三
sing1 kei4 saam1 = Wednesday
星期四
sing1 kei4 sei3 = Thursday
星期五
sing1 kei4 ng5 = Friday
星期六
sing1 kei4 luk6 = Saturday
星期日
sing1 kei4 jat6 = Sunday
星期天
sing1 kei4 tin1 = Sunday 國See all 189 compounds (CantoDict reports 197 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing all 8 examples containing 星
我下個星期就返香港啦。 粵
I'm going back to Hong Kong next week. [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131797]
今日星期幾？ 粵
What is the day (of today)? [The answer will be: 今日星期一/二/三/... (gam1 jat6 sing1 kei4 jat1 / ji6 / saam1 / ...) ]
請你幫我買幾份報紙，南華、星島、明報各一份。
Please buy some newspapers for me, South China (Morning Post), Sing Tao (Daily) and Ming Pao (Daily), one each. Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/42/]星[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/42/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">星</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 星
Unicode code for this character: U+661f (off-site link)
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/42/]星[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/42/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">星</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 星
Unicode code for this character: U+661f (off-site link)
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- : the Cantonese Jyutping romanisation (pronunciation)
Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.
- : the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
- a detailed description of all the meanings
- the number of strokes needed to write the character correctly
- our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
- a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font, along with the PRC simplified version if applicable
- a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
- a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
(we would really appreciate new volunteers to add some more compound words to the database so please post to the CantoDict forum if you would like to spend an occasional 10 mins or so helping)
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