昴

Definitions

 * 1)   Hairy Head Mansion (Pleiades) one of

Kanji

 * 1) the Pleiades (star cluster)

Etymology 1
Likely from, use of kanji in Japanese texts first appears in the ' (c. mid-8th century), phonetic spelling first attested in the ' (938 ).

By extension from, due to the way the stars in the constellation all cluster together. Compare.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Pleiades star cluster, one of the

Etymology 2
Likely from.

Possibly an allusion from referenced multiple times in the  (712 ); probably the original form of Subaru above. Compare the development of

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Pleiades star cluster, one of the

Etymology 3
→ →

From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the  constellation, one of the, corresponding to the Pleiades star cluster in English

Etymology 4
Nominalization of classical adjective, modern.

Etymology 5
Nominalization of verb.