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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
あまつあめあま-
Words with 天
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —天山北路route skirting the Tian Shan Mountains to the north; region north of the Tian Shan Mountains
- —天才教育gifted education; education of gifted children
- —鞍馬天狗Kurama tengu; tengu of Kyoto's Mount Kurama, said to have taught the art of war to Minamoto no Yoshitsune
- —天の配剤heaven's dispensation; divine providence; plan of nature
- —勾配天井sloping ceiling
- —明日天気children's game of throwing a shoe up in the air and seeing how it falls to predict whether it will rain or not the following day
- —天狗俳諧parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results); tengu haiku
- —天ボタンtop button (on a cap); squatchee
- —天蓋付きcanopied
- —天然樹脂natural resin
- —天人合一unification of God and man; acting in accordance with the will of heaven
- —天馬行空unconstrained creativity; bold and imaginative; (like a) a heavenly steed soaring across the skies
- —先天異常congenital abnormality; birth defect; congenital disorder
- —雲外蒼天light at the end of the tunnel; relief after overcoming hardship; open sky beyond the clouds
- —天体化学astrochemistry
- —風天小畜xiao xu (hexagram 9 of the I Ching: the taming power of the small)
- —天火同人tong ren (hexagram 13 of the I Ching: fellowship with men)
- —火天大有da you (hexagram 14 of the I Ching: possession in great measure)
- —天雷无妄wu wang (hexagram 25 of the I Ching: innocence)
- —山天大畜da xu (hexagram 26 of the I Ching: the taming power of the great)