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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
- —天然色写真color photo; colour photo
- —天体写真術astrophotography
- —天体物理学astrophysics
- —天体分光術astronomical spectroscopy
- —天幕製造人tentmaker
- —かかあ天下household with the wife as the boss; wife wearing the pants; wife ruling the roost; house with a henpecked husband
- —天然ガラスnatural glass
- —晴天乱気流clear-air turbulence
- —電波天文学radio astronomy
- —高層天気図upper-level weather chart
- —天体望遠鏡astronomical telescope
- —天気の崩れbreak (change for the worse) in the weather
- —位置天文学position astronomy
- —先天的障害birth defect
- —天安門事件Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989); Tiananmen Square Incident
- —天然キャラnatural airhead; person prone to making silly mistakes
- —天下の台所The Nonpareil Kitchen (nickname for Osaka); The Kitchen of the Nation
- —天竜八部衆the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
- —聖母被昇天Assumption of Mary (August 15); the Assumption
- —天保の改革Tempō Reforms (series of government measures; 1841-1843)