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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
- —雨の降る日は天気が悪いwater is wet; on days when it rains, the weather is bad
- —天網恢恢疎にして漏らさずheaven's net has large meshes, but nothing escapes
- —人事を尽くして天命を待つman proposes, God disposes; do your best and leave the rest to providence; man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven (or fate)
- —君父の讐は倶に天を戴かずnot wanting to live in the same world as one's father's or lord's enemies; being prepared to sacrifice one's life to avenge one's father or lord
- —一葉落ちて天下の秋を知るa straw will show which way the wind blows; a falling leaf shows that autumn has come
- —天災は忘れた頃にやってくるnatural disasters happen when you've forgotten about the previous ones
- —先天性中枢性肺胞低換気症候群congenital central hypoventilation syndrome; CCHS
- —天から降ったか地から湧いたか(appearing) out of nowhere; as if one had fallen from the sky or sprung from the ground
- —エッジワースカイパーベルト天体Edgeworth-Kuiper belt objects
- —天知る、地知る、我知る、子知るmurder will out; truth will out; bad deeds will always be discovered; heaven will know, earth will know, I will know, you will know
- —天知る、地知る、我知る、人知るmurder will out; truth will out; bad deeds will always be discovered; heaven will know, earth will know, I will know, people will know
- —どれにしようかな天の神様の言う通りeeny, meeny, miny, moe; eenie, meenie, minie, moe
- —冲天rising into the heavens
- —旱天drought; dry weather
- —天華snow
- —天嶮natural defences; natural defenses; steep place
- —天功work of nature
- —天主castle tower
- —半天traditional short winter coat resembling a haori without gussets; livery coat; half the sky; mid-air; middle of the sky
- —袢天traditional short winter coat resembling a haori without gussets; livery coat