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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
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Words with 天
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —本天silk velvet
- —天花flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image
- —天一Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky
- —天冠imperial coronation crown; celestial crown; crown worn by Buddha and celestial beings
- —軒天eave
- —天狼Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star
- —天パnaturally curly hair
- —水天water and sky; Varuna; Vedic god of water and sky (adopted into Buddhism as god of water and protector of the west)
- —天鼠bat (animal)
- —天衆deva; celestial being
- —天竜deva and naga; heavenly dragon
- —夜天night sky
- —天宝Tenpō era (742-756)
- —天人heavenly being; celestial being; celestial nymph; celestial maiden
- —日天Surya (Hindu sun god also revered as one of the twelve devas in Shingon Buddhism); sun
- —月天Chandra (Hindu moon god also revered as one of the twelve devas in Shingon Buddhism); moon
- —冬天winter sky; wintry weather
- —天府balance wheel (in a watch); balance
- —戴天one's earthly existence; living under heaven
- —天日the Sun