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星 — stroke order
Watch how to write 星 (xīng) stroke by stroke. 星 has 9 strokes and means “star”. It appears in common words such as 星座 (constellation) and 明星 (star). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 星
The most common words that use 星 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
星座xīngzuòconstellation明星míngxīngstar三星sānxīngSanxing or Sanhsing township in Yilan c…星期xīngqīweek星星xīngxingstar in the sky星球xīngqiúcelestial body
How 星 is written
- Radical
- 日
- Components
- 日 ＋ 生
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 日 and a phonetic component 生 (sun).