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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
- —天蠍宮Scorpio (8th zodiacal sign); the Scorpion
- —天竺楽gagaku of Indian origin
- —天人鳥pin-tailed whydah (species of weaverbird, Vidua macroura)
- —天平尺Tenpyō shaku (approx. 29.6 cm)
- —歓喜天Nandikesvara (Ganesh in the Buddhist pantheon)
- —自在天Mahesvara (Shiva in the Buddhist pantheon)
- —多聞天Vaisravana (one of the Four Heavenly Kings)
- —広目天Virupaksa (Buddhist deity)
- —増長天Virudhaka (Buddhist deity)
- —持国天Dhrtarastra (Buddhist deity)
- —天門冬dried Chinese asparagus root
- —柊南天Mahonia japonica; Japanese mahonia
- —天気祭ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)
- —天津飯crab omelet on rice
- —天師道Way of the Celestial Masters (ancient Chinese Daoist movement orig. known as The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice)
- —天目台stand for tea bowls (tea ceremony)
- —ホコ天pedestrian mall; car-free pedestrian mall; pedestrian paradise
- —唐天竺China and India; far away
- —渾天儀armillary sphere
- —天気輪weather wheel; pillar found near graveyards and temples with a wheel attached to it that can be used to communicate with the dead, as well as for divination; sun pillar