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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
- —ガラス天井glass ceiling
- —天下の宝刀one's last resort; trump card
- —天父受苦説patripassianism (theology)
- —天文考古学archaeoastronomy; archeoastronomy
- —青天白日旗Blue Sky with a White Sun; party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)
- —壺中の天地another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world
- —天秤ばかりbalance scale; balance
- —準天頂衛星quasi-zenith satellite
- —天使が通るto have a break in the conversation; to experience an awkward silence; an angel passes
- —航海天文学nautical astronomy
- —天と地の差difference between night and day; world of difference; (being) poles apart; difference between heaven and earth
- —天体分光学astronomical spectroscopy; astronomical photometry
- —恒星天文学stellar astronomy
- —球面天文学spherical astronomy
- —恒星状天体quasi-stellar object; QSO; quasar
- —第二の天性second nature
- —先天性異常congenital anomaly; birth defect
- —天使の４歳fabulous fours (age); fantastic fours; angelic fours
- —韋駄天走りrunning extremely fast
- —天にも昇るto be ecstatically happy; to be on cloud nine; to be in seventh heaven