星
xīng HSK1

a star

星 xīng
star noun
any celestial body appearing as a luminous point in the night sky

夜空里闪烁着点点繁星。

yè​kōng lǐ shǎn​shuò zhe diǎn diǎn fán xīng.

The night sky is twinkling with many stars.

bit noun
a tiny particle or minute amount of something

他的衣服上沾了几点油星。

tā de yī​fu shàng zhān le jǐ diǎn yóu xīng.

His clothes are spotted with a few oil stains.

satellite noun
a celestial body or man-made object orbiting a planet

中国成功发射了一颗通信卫星。

Zhōng​guó chéng​gōng fā​shè le yī kē tōng​xìn wèi​xīng.

China successfully launched a communications satellite.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
537th most common 394.4 per million
Movie subtitles
349th most common 447.8 per million appears in 72% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
67.1 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
115.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+661F

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)