Editing Chinese constellations (section)

==Terminology==
The Chinese word for "star, heavenly body" is {{lang|zh|星}} {{lang|zh-latn-pinyin|xīng}}.
The [[Chinese characters|character]] {{lang|zh|星}} originally had a more complicated form: {{lang|zh|曐}}, a phono-semantic character ({{linktext|形聲字}}) whose semantic portion, {{lang|zh|晶}}, originally depicting three twinkling stars (three instances of the "sun" radical {{lang|zh|[[日]]}}).

The modern Chinese term for "constellation", referring to those as defined by the IAU system, is {{lang|zh|星座}} ({{lang|zh-latn-pinyin|xīng zuò}}). The older term {{lang|zh|星官}} ({{lang|zh-latn-pinyin|xīng guān}}) is used only in describing constellations of the traditional system. The character {{lang|zh|官}}'s main meaning is "public official" (hence the English translation "officials" for the Chinese asterisms), it historically could also meant "official's residence".<ref>''[[Ministry of Education Mandarin Chinese Dictionary]]'' (《教育部國語辭典》), [https://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/dictView.jsp?ID=159993&la=1&powerMode=0 "entry 官"], quote: (2.宦吏的居處。)</ref><ref>Example usage in ''[[Analects]]'', "Zi Zhang"; quote: (不得其門而入，不見宗廟之美，百'''官'''之富。), Eno's translation: "without entering through the gate, one could not see the beauty of the ancestral hall hall and the richness of the many '''buildings'''."</ref>

The generic term for "asterism" is {{lang|zh|星群}} ({{lang|zh-latn-pinyin|xīng qún}}, lit. "group of stars").