Hatsya or Iota Orionis is the brightest star in Orion's sword. The 2.9 magnitude star is at the tip of the sword. Its Arabic name, Na’ir al Saif, means simply “the Bright One of the Sword.”
A triple and nebulous star, 3.5, 8.5, and 11, white, pale blue, and grape red in the sword tip of the Hunter,
The Arabs called Hatsya, Na'ir al Saif, "the Bright One in the Sword" (tip).
In China it was Fa, a "Middle-man", nu and intermediate stars being included under this name; but others translate the word "Punishment," and gives another title for it, — Tui, or Jui, the "Sharp Edge", analogous to the Arabian Saif and perhaps taken from it.
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