Chinese

星星

xīngxīng
salt-and-pepper; grizzled
  • HSK 2
  • TOCFL 4

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Lineage

  • characterChinese星 “star (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 粒 c mn)”
    • soundChinese晶 “brilliant; glittering”
    • soundChinese生 “to live; to subsist; to exist”
      • ideaChinese屮 “new birth of plant”
      • ideaChinese一 “one”

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