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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
- —香港天文台Hong Kong Observatory
- —順天堂大学Juntendo University
- —大石天狗堂Oishi Tengudo (karuta maker); Ohishi Tengudo
- —松井天狗堂Matsui Tengudo (karuta maker)
- —天明の飢饉Tenmei famine (1782-1787); Temmei famine
- —天保の飢饉Tenpō famine (1833-1836); Tempo famine
- —天馬空を行くto advance unobstructed
- —天秤にかけるto weigh (one thing against another); to compare (the relative merits of two options); to weigh (something) on scales; to try to have it both ways; to play a double game; to have two strings to one's bow
- —怒髪天を衝くto boil with rage; to be infuriated
- —天から降りるto fall from heaven (the sky)
- —週間天気予報weather forecast for coming week
- —液化天然ガスliquefied natural gas; LNG
- —びっくり仰天astonished; stunned; startled out of one's wits; thunderstruck; open-eyed astonishment
- —天保の大飢饉Great Tempo Famine
- —天に召されるto die; to ascend to heaven
- —意気天を衝くto be in high spirits
- —天文学的数字astronomical figure; astronomical number
- —天然保湿因子natural moisturizing factor; NMF
- —準恒星状天体quasi-stellar object; QSO; quasar
- —一念天に通ずfaith will move mountains