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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
- —天と地heaven and earth; top and bottom
- —天然塩natural salt
- —天井扇ceiling fan
- —大天使archangel
- —天帝星Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star
- —能天気laid-back; carefree; easygoing; thoughtless; happy-go-lucky
- —堕天使fallen angel (esp. Lucifer)
- —天才肌(person) seeming like a genius; (having) the temperament of a prodigy
- —天体核nuclear astrophysics
- —天井画decorative ceiling painting
- —兜率天Tusita heaven (one of the six heavens of the desire realm); Tushita
- —天才的talented; gifted; prodigious; virtuoso; masterful
- —楽天地paradise
- —天保暦Tenpō calendar; Japan's last lunisolar calendar, in use from 1844 to 1872
- —天南星jack-in-the-pulpit; cobra lily (plant of genus Arisaema)
- —被昇天Assumption (of the body and soul of Mary into heaven)
- —天かすtenkasu; crunchy bits of fried batter left after cooking tempura
- —天気雨sun shower; sudden rain from a blue sky
- —恒星天sphere of fixed stars (in the Ptolemaic system)
- —天秤宮Libra (7th zodiacal sign); the Scales