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Kanji for Pleiades
The kanji for “Pleiades” is 昴, read kou and written in 9 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
昴
Pleiades
The Pleiades star cluster, known in Japan as Subaru.
Subaru (昴), the Japanese name for the Pleiades, comes from an old word meaning “to gather together”.
9 strokes On reading コウ、ボウ (kou, bou) Kun reading すばる (subaru) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: the Pleiades
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kou, subaru, bou
Names written with 昴: Osvaldo 緒昴斗
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