Kanji N2

星: star, spot, dot

星 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning star, spot, dot, written with 9 strokes. It is read セイ, ショウ (on) and ほし (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 2. You will see it in 星 (ほし, star) and 衛星 (えいせい, satellite).

星

Meanings

  • star
  • spot
  • dot
  • mark
Strokes9
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 2
Frequency#844 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • セイ
  • ショウ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • ほし
  • -ぼし

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.

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Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 9. Start at the dot.

Common words with 星

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 星ほし

    star (usu. excluding the Sun)

    JLPT N4
  • 衛星えいせい

    (natural) satellite; moon

    JLPT N3
  • 火星かせい

    Mars (planet)

    JLPT N1
  • 惑星わくせい

    planet

    JLPT N1
  • 星座せいざ

    constellation

    JLPT N1
  • 木星もくせい

    Jupiter (planet)

  • 白星しろぼし

    white circle; white star

  • 黒星くろぼし

    black spot; black dot; bull's-eye

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.