The Solar System

太阳系相关词汇

This post, let's talk about 天文学(astronomy) and more specifically 太阳系(solar system) and 行星(planets) names in a first time. In Chinese, usually every planet get the Chinese character 星 added to her name which means "start" (星星).

Some of the names refer to mythological Gods&Kings, some other to universe elements.

Here are the vocabulary words of the nine planets of the solar system, sun and moon in Chinese.