Turtle Beak (Chinese constellation)
The Turtle Beak mansion (觜宿, pinyin: Zī Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the western mansions of the White Tiger.
Asterisms
English name | Chinese name | European constellation | Number of stars |
Turtle Beak | 觜 | Orion | 3 |
Deity in Charge of Monsters | 司怪 | Orion/Taurus/Gemini | 4 |
Seat Flags | 座旗 | Auriga/Lynx | 9 |
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