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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
- —写真天頂筒photographic zenith tube
- —天変地異説catastrophism
- —天罰が下るto receive divine punishment
- —天に唾するto harm oneself as a result of trying to harm someone else; to cut off one's nose to spite one's face; to spit at the sky
- —天正カルタTensho karuta; the first domestically produced Japanese deck of cards, closely based on Latin-suited decks brought over by the Portuguese
- —天賦の才能innate ability; innate talent; natural gift
- —白衣の天使nurse; angel in white
- —電波天文台radio astronomy observatory
- —木の葉天狗weak tengu
- —木っ葉天狗weak tengu; small tengu
- —応天門の変Ōtenmon incident (conspiracy in 866 CE that centered on the destruction of the main gate of the Imperial Palace)
- —天狗になるto get conceited; to become vain; to get stuck up; to get a swollen head; to become a tengu
- —龍天に登るrise of the dragon (bringing rain around the time of the spring equinox)
- —天然ウランnatural uranium
- —天然パーマnaturally curly hair
- —手長水天狗Bombay duck (Harpadon nehereus); bummalo
- —天命を知るto turn 50; to reach 50 years of age
- —他化自在天heaven of controlling others' emanations
- —小天狗蝙蝠Ussuri tube-nosed bat (Murina ussuriensis)
- —非理法権天right triumphs over wrong, law triumphs over right, power triumphs over law, heaven triumphs over power; no man can oppose the divine