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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.
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: subaru, bou
Names written with 昴: Bo 昴 · Beau 昴 · Vaughn 昴 · Boyd 昴生道 · Ivory 藍昴里 · Bonita 昴新楽 · Deborah 照昴良
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