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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
- —天動説Ptolemaic theory; geocentric model; geocentrism
- —天道様the sun; providence; god
- —天日瓦sun-dried brick; adobe
- —天日法solar-evaporation process (in salt making)
- —天秤座Libra (constellation); the Scales
- —天秤棒carrying pole; shoulder pole; milkmaid's yoke
- —天文家astronomer
- —天狼星Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star
- —東天紅early morning crowing of a rooster; brown domestic fowl (chicken breed)
- —破天荒unheard-of; unprecedented; daring; wild; uninhibited; unconventional; reckless
- —別天地another world
- —弁財天Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, art, wealth and water
- —両天秤two alternatives
- —梵天王Brahma (Hindu creator god)
- —韋陀天Wei-To (temple guardian sometimes confused with Vajrapani)
- —吉祥天Sri-mahadevi (consort of Vaishravana)
- —天日塩sun-dried salt
- —天瓜粉talcum powder
- —天宮図horoscope
- —天道乾sun-dried