冥王星

Chinese

king of hell star; satellite; small amount
simp. and trad.
(冥王星)		 冥王 星

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 冥 (めい)王 (おう)星 (せい) (Meiōsei)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

冥王星

  1. (astronomy) Pluto

Japanese

Kanji in this term
冥 王 星
めい
Grade: S		 おう
Grade: 1		 せい
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

From 冥王 (Meiō, “King of the Underworld”) +‎ 星 (-sei, “planet”), coined by Hōei Nojiri in 1930 as a reference to Pluto, the Greco-Roman god of the underworld.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

冥王星 (hiragana めいおうせい, rōmaji Meiōsei, historical hiragana めいわうせい)

  1. Pluto (Kuiper belt object - a dwarf planet)
    • 2009 February 13 [Feb 23 2004], Takeuchi, Naoko, “Actアクト 32サーティツー　無む限げん６シックス　３戦せん士し [Act 32: Infinity 6: 3 Warriors]”, in 美少女戦士Pretty GuardianセーラームーンSAILORMOON [Pretty Guardian SAILOR MOON], volume 7 (fiction, in Japanese), 5th edition, Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 67:
      ——そして　冥 (めい)界 (かい)の星 (ほし)冥 (めい)王 (おう)星 (せい)を守 (しゅ)護 (ご)にもつセーラープルート
      ——Soshite Meikai no Hoshi Meiōsei o shugo ni motsu Sērā Purūto
      ——And I am Sailor Pluto, keeper of Pluto the Underworld Planet

Descendants

See also

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
冥王星

Proper noun

冥王星 • (Myeong-wangseong, McCune-Reischauer: Myŏngwangsŏng, Yale: Myeng.wangseng) (hangeul 명왕성)

  1. Hanja form? of 명왕성 (“Pluto”).
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