trobadora: (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan - cheers)
trobadora ([personal profile] trobadora) wrote in [community profile] guardian_learning 2022-07-17 12:29 pm (UTC)

you get 恆星 for stars as opposed to 行星 for planets because only the latter move

So cool! We have almost the same terms in German ("Fixstern" vs. "Wandelstern"), though Wandelstern is pretty antiquated now. English has "fixed star" at least. And "planet" comes from the Greek for "wandering star".

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