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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
- —天台神道Tendai Shinto (alt. name for Hie Shinto; form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai)
- —天気記号weather symbol
- —大自在天Mahesvara (Shiva in the Buddhist pantheon)
- —天津鞴韜bellows (of the) imperial harbor; Shinto Buddhist doctrines
- —天然自然natural; naturally
- —天文単位astronomical unit; AU
- —天声人語Tensei Jingo (daily column in the Asahi Shimbun)
- —卵天狗茸death cap (Amanita phalloides); death cup
- —天狗蝙蝠Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (Murina hilgendorfi)
- —天日干しsun drying; solar drying
- —天竺木綿cotton sheeting
- —天津条約Treaty of Tianjin (1858, 1871, 1885)
- —天賦の才innate ability; innate talent; natural gift
- —天日乾燥sun drying; drying in the sun
- —花天月地flowers blooming in moonlight
- —天の赤道celestial equator
- —天一天上days on which Ten'ichijin is in heaven (the 30th to the 45th days of the sexagenary cycle)
- —天一太郎day of Ten'ichijin's first ascension to heaven in a year (the 30th day of the first sexagenary cycle of the year)
- —天の恵みGod's gift; God's blessing; grace of God; godsend
- —天正大判tenshō ōban; oval gold coin struck by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1588