Illustration: On a clear winter evening at a rural Japanese campsite, a father and daughter look up at Orion above the dark ridge. Three closely aligned belt stars sit between the constellation's prominent shoulder and foot stars, with the smaller sword stars below.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

星せい座ざ

seiza

constellation

Example sentences

  1. 古代こだいの天文学者てんもんがくしゃは、星座せいざを見みつけ、名前なまえをつけた。

    Ancient astronomers noticed constellations and gave them names.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 星座せいざは全然詳ぜんぜんくわしくないな。オリオン座ざとカシオペア座ざくらいしか見みてもわからない。あと北斗七星ほくとしちせいもわかる。

    I know nothing about constellations. I can only recognize Orion and Cassiopeia. Oh, and the Big Dipper, too.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 天井画てんじょうがは、円形えんけいの金箔きんぱくで星ほしを表あらわし、星ほしと星ほしの間まを朱しゅの線せんでつないで星座せいざを表あらわしたものである。

    On the ceiling painting, round gold leaves represent stars and red lines connecting stars represent constellations.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 星座

  • 星star; spotOnセイ・ショウKunほし
  • 座squat; seatOnザKunすわる

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