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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
- —木槽天秤搾り(sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole
- —不俱戴天の敵mortal enemy; sworn enemy; nemesis
- —組み入れ天井latticed ceiling
- —天にものぼるto be ecstatically happy; to be on cloud nine; to be in seventh heaven
- —青天のへきれきa bolt out of the blue
- —晴天のへきれきa bolt out of the blue
- —両天秤を掛けるto try to have it both ways; to play a double game; to have two strings to one's bow
- —両天秤に掛けるto try to have it both ways; to play a double game; to have two strings to one's bow
- —鋳掛屋の天秤棒intrusive person; being intrusive; a tinker's shoulder pole
- —りゅう天に登るrise of the dragon (bringing rain around the time of the spring equinox)
- —お天気おねえさんweather girl; female TV weather presenter
- —金は天下の回りものmoney comes and goes; money goes around and around
- —バカと天才は紙一重there is but a fine line between genius and insanity
- —針の穴から天のぞくto have a narrow view of things; to peek at the sky through the eye of a needle
- —鍵の穴から天をのぞくto have a narrow view of things; to peep at the sky through a keyhole
- —天は自ら助くるものを助くheaven helps those who help themselves
- —天災は忘れたころにやってくるnatural disasters happen when you've forgotten about the previous ones
- —どれにしようかな天の神様のいうとおりeeny, meeny, miny, moe; eenie, meenie, minie, moe