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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
- —運は天にありthere's no flying from fate; you can't fight fate
- —至誠天に通ずsincerity can move heaven
- —露天掘り炭鉱open-pit coal mine; open-cut coal mine
- —天機を漏らすto leak a major secret
- —環天頂アークcircumzenithal arc; cicumzenith arc
- —地球近傍天体near-earth object; NEO
- —ペルー天竺鼠montane guinea pig (Cavia tschudii)
- —不倶戴天の敵mortal enemy; sworn enemy; nemesis
- —天安沈没事件sinking of the South Korean navy ship Cheonan (allegedly by a North Korean torpedo; March 26, 2010)
- —ガラスの天井glass ceiling
- —天王星型惑星ice giant (Uranus, Neptune)
- —太陽系小天体small solar system body
- —海王星外天体trans-Neptunian object; transneptunian object; TNO
- —冥王星型天体plutoid; ice dwarf
- —天国から地獄(going straight) from heaven to hell
- —先天性心疾患congenital heart disease
- —庭園露天風呂garden open-air bath
- —天文学研究所Institute of Astronomy; IoA
- —天理医療大学Tenri Health Care University
- —楽天生命保険Rakuten Life Insurance