








Pleiades
The Seven Sisters
Other rapidly rotating stars include Alpha Arae, Pleione, Vega and Achernar.
Many of their languages include names for the Pleades.

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Open the tool →昴宿 (mǎo xiù) means “Pleiades, the Seven Sisters”.
昴宿 is pronounced mǎo xiù in Mandarin Chinese.
“Pleiades” is 昴宿 (mǎo xiù) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 昴宿, each with pinyin and an English translation.