biǎn​dan​xīng

Altair and neighboring stars

扁担星 扁擔星 biǎn​dan​xīng
Altair and neighboring stars
The star Altair and the two smaller stars adjacent to it; in Chinese folklore, these represent the 牛郎 niú​láng carrying his two children on a shoulder pole to meet the 织女 zhī​nǚ.

Frequency

Written text
0.006 per million

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Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)