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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
- —天然資源保護論者conservationist
- —金は天下の回り物money comes and goes; money goes around and around
- —先天性股関節脱臼congenital dislocation of the hip; developmental dysplasia of the hip
- —先天性胆管閉鎖症congenital bile duct atresia
- —天は二物を与えずGod doesn't give with both hands; God does not give two gifts; heaven does not grant people more than one talent
- —天高く馬肥ゆる秋autumn comes with harvest time and clear weather; autumn with the sky clear and blue, and horses growing stout
- —鋳掛け屋の天秤棒intrusive person; being intrusive; a tinker's shoulder pole
- —天然放射性同位体natural radioisotope
- —天狗フルーツ蝙蝠tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimeninae spp., esp. the common tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene albiventer)
- —奇想天外より来るto think of something bizarre; to suddenly have a whacky idea
- —奇想天外より落つto think of something bizarre; to suddenly have a whacky idea
- —青天白日満地紅旗Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth (flag of the Republic of China)
- —管を以て天を窺うto have a narrow view of things; to look at the sky through a tube
- —針の穴から天覗くto have a narrow view of things; to peek at the sky through the eye of a needle
- —天上天下唯我独尊throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one
- —天にも昇る気持ちextreme happiness; euphoria; (being in) seventh heaven
- —水金地火木土天海(mnemonic for) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
- —南アフリカ天文台South African Astronomical Observatory; SAAO
- —天空の城ラピュタLaputa: Castle in the Sky (1986 animated film); Castle in the Sky
- —ニュートリノ天文学neutrino astronomy