星

xīng
#537 most
frequent character
star, heavenly body, satellite

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

星 has 日 sun as picture part and 生 shēng as sound part, first meaning 'star'. The meaning then grew to 'heavenly body', 'planet', and 'bit; speck'.

Drawn as: sun

星 as a component in other characters

sound4 characters
picture1 character

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