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天 kanji
heavens, sky, imperial
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
テン
Kun readings
あまつあめあま-
Words with 天
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —天承Tenshō era (1131.1.29-1132.8.11)
- —天養Ten'yō era (1144.2.23-1145.7.22)
- —天文Tenbun era (1532.7.29-1555.10.23)
- —天正Tenshō era (1573.7.28-1592.12.8)
- —天保Tenpō era (1830.12.10-1844.12.2)
- —天和Tenna era (1681.9.29-1684.2.21); Tenwa era
- —帰天death of a Christian (in Catholicism)
- —召天death (of a Christian)
- —鳥天chicken tempura (specialty of Oita prefecture)
- —天狐celestial fox; fox with supernatural powers (sometimes said to live in the heavens)
- —天干celestial stems (10 signs of the Chinese calendar)
- —天王heavenly king; Gozu Tenno (deity said to be the Indian god Gavagriva)
- —天官Ministry of State (Zhou dynasty China)
- —聖天Nandikesvara (Ganesh in the Buddhist pantheon)
- —諸天various deities; the gods
- —天部deva
- —天柱tuning peg (on a biwa or shamisen)
- —天板top (of a table, counter, etc.); tabletop; countertop; top board; surface; baking tray; baking sheet; sheet pan
- —天界the heavens; the skies; celestial sphere; heavenly realm; deva realm
- —天目tenmoku; ceramics (esp. tea bowls) with a dark glaze that resembles oil spotting; tenmoku tea-bowl; dark-glazed conical tea-bowl of Chinese origin