スター

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English star.[1][2][3][4][5]

Pronunciation

Noun

スター • (sutā) 

  1. (in compounds) a star (luminous celestial body)
    Synonym: 星 (hoshi)
  2. (by extension) an asterisk
    Synonyms: アステリスク (asuterisuku), 星印 (hoshijirushi)
  3. a star (famous person in the media like an actor or athlete)
    Synonym: 花形 (hanagata)
  4. (physics) Multiple tracks emitted radially from the one point on the nuclear plate which caused by the collision of the high-energy elementary particles with the nucleus to emit the hadrons in all directions.
    Synonym: スター現象 (sutā genshō)
  5. (mineralogy) asterism
    Synonyms: スター効果 (sutā kōka), アステリズム (asuterizumu), 星彩 (seisai)

Derived terms

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. “スター”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
  4. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. “スター”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
  6. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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