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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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テン
Kun readings
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Words with 天
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —天罰覿面the certainty of divine punishment; Swift is Heaven's vengeance
- —天賦人権natural rights of man
- —天文学者astronomer
- —天変地異natural disaster; cataclysm
- —天幕造りtentmaker
- —天佑神助divine grace; God's help
- —天路歴程Pilgrim's Progress
- —不倶戴天cannot allow (oneself) to live (with someone) under the canopy of heaven; cannot allow (the sworn enemy) to live in this world; irreconcilable (enemy)
- —摩利支天Marici (Buddhist god of war)
- —一人天下being the sole master of the situation; reigning supreme; standing unchallenged
- —天神地祇gods of heaven and earth
- —露天掘りsurface mining; open-cut mining; open-pit mining
- —運否天賦trusting to chance; trusting to Providence
- —組み天井lattice ceiling
- —野天風呂open-air bath
- —水天彷彿the sky and water merging into one; seamless merging of the sea and the sky
- —意気衝天in high spirits
- —吊り天井suspended ceiling
- —則天去私selfless devotion to justice
- —天下取りrule over the whole country