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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
- —天下国家the world and the nation; the state of the world; high affairs of state
- —天下第一the best in the land; the best of its kind in the country; par excellence in the whole country
- —天下多事eventful times for the nation (world); the nation (world) being in turmoil; the storm clouds gathering in the land
- —天下統一unification of the whole country
- —天下万民the whole nation; all the people in the land
- —天下無類peerless (unparalleled, matchless, unequaled) in the country
- —天気次第being dependent on what the weather is like
- —天候不順unseasonable weather; fickle weather; bad weather
- —天上天下the whole world; throughout heaven and earth
- —天真流露manifestation (revelation) of one's natural sincerity (naivete)
- —天孫降臨the descent to earth of the grandson of the sun goddess
- —天地有情the sentient world; all sentient beings
- —天地晦冥the world is covered in darkness; all is plunged into darkness
- —天地玄黄heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth
- —天地長久heaven and earth are eternal
- —天地鳴動rumbling and shaking of the earth
- —天敵関係relationship of being natural enemies
- —天覧試合game held with the Emperor in attendance
- —天理人道the laws of nature and humanity
- —天理人情the laws of nature and humanity