zhèn
xīng

technical
archaic

Meaning of 镇星

镇星 means Saturn (in ancient Chinese astronomy). Pronounced zhèn xīng.

  • Saturn (in ancient Chinese astronomy)

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rén
chēng
xīng
wéi
zhèn
xīng
 

The ancients called Saturn 'Zhenxing'.

 
Shǐ
 ·
tiān
guān
shū
 
zǎi
 
zhèn
xīng
shì
tài
yáng
liù
xíng
xīng
 

The 'Treatise on Astronomy' in the Records of the Grand Historian records that Zhenxing is the sixth planet in the solar system.

Zhèn
xīng
yòu
chēng
tián
xīng
 
rén
rèn
wéi
èr
shí
nián
yùn
xíng
zhōu
tiān
 

Zhenxing is also called Tianxing; the ancients believed it completed one celestial cycle every twenty-eight years.

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