ホシ
Meanings
Noun
1. star (usu. excluding the Sun); planet (usu. excluding Earth); heavenly body
2. star (glyph, symbol, shape); asterisk
3. star (actor, player, etc.)
4. dot; spot; fleck
5. bullseye
6. perp; perpetrator; culprit; offender; suspect
police slang; oft. written as ホシ
7. one's star (that determines one's fate); one's fortune
8. point; score
9. star point (intersection marked with a dot); hoshi
10. (pyrotechnic) star
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (38 in total)
seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata); seven-spot ladybird
zygnema; any freshwater filamentous thalloid algae of genus Zygnema
(countless) stars in the night sky; stardust
starlight
starry sky
starlight
star shape; pentagram
peanut worm (any worm of phylum Sipuncula)
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata
innumerably; countlessly; (lit.) as abundant as stars
astrology; horoscope
ray of light; ray of hope; promising talent
Le petit prince (by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry); The Little Prince
meteorite
like glittering stars
one's star; one's fortune or destiny
the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow; Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn
Star of David; Magen David
Star of David; Magen David
star in the sky on a spring night
pipewort (Eriocaulon cinereum)
meeting of the stars Vega and Altair (on the night of Tanabata); meeting of the two love stars
counting "stars" to tally the score to date; how well something has gone (e.g. in terms of wins over losses)
astrologer; horoscopist
star seen on a rainy night; (fig.) rare occurrence; (fig.) rare sight
chart used to keep track of a wrestler's records during the tournament; matrix table; score table
starry toado (pufferfish)
common starling; European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
common pochard (Aythya ferina); pochard
Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); "day of the ghost"
dapple gray (horse coat color); dapple grey
meteorite
star formation
the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow
Examples (63 in total)
The stars came out.
He looked up at the stars.
The stars were beginning to appear.