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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
- —女房天下husband being henpecked; house where the wife is the boss; petticoat government
- —百日天下very short-lived regime; very brief reign; (Napoleon's post-Elba) Hundred Days
- —俯仰天地looking up and down, from heaven to earth (having nothing to be ashamed of); swearing by Heaven and Earth (having done nothing to be ashamed of)
- —天平感宝Tenpyō-kanpō era (749.4.14-749.7.2); Tenbyō-kanpō era
- —天平勝宝Tenpyō-shōhō era (749.7.2-757.8.18)
- —天平宝字Tenpyō-hōji era (757.8.18-765.1.7)
- —天平神護Tenpyō-jingo era (765.1.7-767.8.16)
- —歓天喜地great joy; jubilation; exultation
- —全天候型all-weather; weather-proof
- —紅天狗茸fly agaric (species of poisonous mushroom, Amanita muscaria)
- —天気情報weather information; weather report
- —天平時代Tenpyō period (esp. used as a period of art history, 710-794 CE)
- —天然香料natural perfume; natural fragrances
- —地心天頂geocentric zenith
- —天文天頂astronomical zenith
- —天球座標celestial coordinates
- —天体座標celestial coordinates
- —直示天秤analytical balance; direct reading balance
- —天然ゴムnatural rubber; India rubber; caoutchouc
- —天神七代seven generations of celestial deities