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明星

míng xīng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

明星 (míng xīng) means "star; celebrity". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 明星 means

1. star; celebrity

The characters in 明星

• 明míngbright; opposite: dark 暗; (of meaning) clear
• 星xīngstar; heavenly body; satellite

Words containing 明星

• 流量明星liú liàng míng xīng(neologism c. 2014) celebrity with a huge, devoted fan base…
• 启明星qǐ míng xīng(astronomy) Venus

Where 明星 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Clarity & Certainty (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read míng xīng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.