[2] Based upon parallax measurements obtained during the Hipparcos mission,[1] it is roughly 370 light-years distant from the Sun.

[11] Xi Cancri together with Lambda Leonis (Alterf) were the Persian Nahn, "the Nose", and the Coptic Piautos, "the Eye", both lunar asterisms.

The WGSN decided to attribute proper names to individual stars rather than entire multiple systems.

[10] At its present distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.135 due to interstellar dust.

[3] Xi Cancri is a single-lined spectroscopic binary star system with an orbital period of 4.66 years, an eccentricity of 0.06, and a semimajor axis of 0.01 arcsecond.