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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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On readings
テン
Kun readings
あまつあめあま-
Words with 天
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —天龍八部衆the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
- —直示天びんanalytical balance; direct reading balance
- —天正かるたTensho karuta; the first domestically produced Japanese deck of cards, closely based on Latin-suited decks brought over by the Portuguese
- —露天掘炭鉱open-pit coal mine; open-cut coal mine
- —木っ端天狗weak tengu; small tengu
- —組入れ天井latticed ceiling
- —天目茶わんtenmoku tea-bowl; dark-glazed conical tea-bowl of Chinese origin
- —壷中の天地another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world
- —天狗つぶてrock flying out of nowhere (while in the mountains)
- —天使の四歳fabulous fours (age); fantastic fours; angelic fours
- —天にも上るto be ecstatically happy; to be on cloud nine; to be in seventh heaven
- —天にも登るto be ecstatically happy; to be on cloud nine; to be in seventh heaven
- —天をあおぐto look up at the sky; to look up to heaven; to face upwards; to look up to the sky (in frustration or despair); to look skyward helplessly
- —天真らんまんinnocent; naive; artless; unaffected; genuine; childlike
- —天秤に掛ける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
- —天罰てきめんthe certainty of divine punishment; Swift is Heaven's vengeance
- —怒髪天を突くto boil with rage; to be infuriated
- —怒髪天をつくto boil with rage; to be infuriated
- —天機を洩らすto leak a major secret
- —天機をもらすto leak a major secret