EntryCommonJLPT N4WaniKani 6
  1. Noun

    star (usu. excluding the Sun); planet (usu. excluding Earth); heavenly body

    昨夜、屋上から星を観察した。
    Last night, we watched the stars from the rooftop.
  2. star (glyph, symbol, shape); asterisk

  3. star (actor, player, etc.)

  4. dot; spot; fleck

  5. bullseye

  6. perp; perpetrator; culprit; offender; suspect

    Slangpolice slang; oft. written as ホシ

  7. one's star (that determines one's fate); one's fortune

    see 九星

  8. point; score

    Sumo

  9. star point (intersection marked with a dot); hoshi

    Go (game)

  10. (pyrotechnic) star

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

star, spot, dot, mark

Kun
ほし-ぼし
On
セイショウ
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N2
Frequency
844 of 2500
Radical
sun
WaniKani
Level 6

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Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
2-4-5SKIP code
4c5.7The Kanji Dictionary
6010.4Four corner code
3872deroo
661fUnicode hex code
1-32-17JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2121Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2452New Nelson (John Haig)
2435New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3089Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1577Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2156Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1556Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1676Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
877A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
946Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
838Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
13837Morohashi
154A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
730Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
743Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
264sakade
599Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
171henshall3
181Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
463Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
973Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1570Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
xing1Pinyin reading
seongKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
6WaniKani level