Thread:Hielmiez/@comment-29743280-20161229084641/@comment-30379300-20161229112408

After I ask to my friend who expert in Japanese, this is the explanation why 一番星 pronounce as ichiban boshi not ichiban hoshi, because in Japanese there's a change phoneme in forming a word from 2 or more kanji, ichiban boshi form from 3 kanji, in the forming process phoneme /h/ in hoshi change into /b/, so read as boshi but the meaning doesn't change (the meaning still star), another example :

Ao(空) + sora(空) become Aozora(青空) - > Blue Sky

Mura(村) + hito(人) become Murabito(村人) -> Villager

This is also happen to repeated word like ki (木, tree) -> kigi (木々, trees), Hito (人, person) -> hitobito (人々, people)

So they just change the phoneme, but the meaning still same or not change, that's why ichiban boshi still translate as first star