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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
- —天然石native rock; natural rock
- —大天狗large tengu; powerful tengu; big braggart; blowhard
- —天狗物category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character; goblin piece
- —小天狗small tengu; promising young martial arts practitioner
- —昇天祭Ascension Day; Feast of the Ascension
- —天下人ruler of the whole country; person who holds the reins of government
- —天文館planetarium
- —智天使cherubim; cherub
- —天地眼Acala's eyes, one looking up and the other looking down
- —天主堂(Catholic) church; cathedral
- —金天狗golden tengu
- —天狗礫rock flying out of nowhere (while in the mountains)
- —天狗道world of the tengu; hell of the long-nosed goblins
- —並天道Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis); harlequin ladybird; Halloween beetle
- —天然橋natural bridge; natural arch
- —八天狗hattengu; tengu said to live among the 8 mountains of Atago, Hira, Daisen, Ōmine, Kurama, Iizuna, Hiko, and Shiramine
- —天文道tenmondō (form of astrology)
- —天然藍natural indigo
- —天鵞絨velvet
- —天井高ceiling height