昴

昴 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日竹竹中 (AHHL), four-corner 6072₇, composition ⿱日卯)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 494, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13865
• Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1503, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6634

昴

1. (～宿) (Chinese astronomy) Hairy Head Mansion (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)

• 留 (Liǔ)

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. the Pleiades (star cluster)

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←めう (meu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)^{←ばう (bau, historical)}
• Kun: すばる (subaru, 昴); すまる (sumaru, 昴)
• Nanori: あき (aki); こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}; たか (taka); たかし (takashi); のぼる (noboru)

Likely from Old Japanese, use of kanji in Japanese texts first appears in the Tango-no-kuni Fudoki (c. mid-8th century), phonetic spelling first attested in the Wamyō Ruijushō (938 CE).

By extension from 統ばる (subaru, “to bunch together; to unite”, intransitive), due to the way the stars in the constellation all cluster together.[1][2] Compare 統べる (suberu, “to command”, transitive).

• (Tokyo) す​ばる [súꜜbàrù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [sɨᵝba̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

昴(すばる) • (Subaru) 

1. (astronomy) the Pleiades star cluster, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions

   Synonyms: プレアデス星団 (Pureadesu-seidan), 昴宿 (Bōshuku), 昴星 (Subaruboshi, Bōsei), 六連星 (Mutsuraboshi)

2. a female given name

Likely from Old Japanese.

Possibly an allusion from 昴の玉 (sumaru no tama, literally “cluster of pearls”) referenced multiple times in the Kojiki (712 CE); probably the original form of Subaru above. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Compare the development of 皇 (sume-/sumera- → sube-/subera-, prefix of praise and respect to Shinto deities or an Emperor of Japan)

昴(すまる) • (Sumaru) 

1. (astronomy, regional) the Pleiades star cluster, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions
2. a male given name

/bau/ → /bɔː/ → /boː/

From Middle Chinese 昴 (MC maewX).

• (Tokyo) ぼ​ー [bóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [bo̞ː]

昴(ぼう) • (Bō) ^{←ばう (bau)?}

1. (Chinese astronomy) the Hairy Head constellation, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions, corresponding to the Pleiades star cluster in English

   Synonyms: 昴宿 (Bōshuku), 昴星 (Bōsei)

Nominalization of classical adjective 高し (takashi), modern 高い (takai, “high”).

• IPA^(key): [ta̠ka̠ɕi]

昴(たかし) • (Takashi) 

1. a male given name

Nominalization of verb 上る, 登る (noboru, “to ascend, rise”).

• IPA^(key): [no̞bo̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

昴(のぼる) • (Noboru) 

1. a male given name

昴 (eum 묘 (myo))

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昴: Hán Nôm readings: mão, máu

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