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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
- —天助divine aid
- —天女heavenly nymph; celestial maiden; beautiful and kind woman
- —天象weather; astronomical phenomena
- —天上the heavens; the skies; heaven; deva realm; ascending to heaven; death
- —天壌heaven and earth
- —天職vocation; lifework; calling; sacred task (esp. the emperor's rule over the nation); prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)
- —天色weather; sky colour; sky color
- —天心zenith; divine will; providence
- —天真naivete
- —天水rain water
- —天成(product of) nature; born (musician)
- —天生naturally occurring; nature; disposition; vocation; calling
- —天声heavenly voice
- —天祖the ancestral Sun Goddess
- —天窓skylight; head
- —天草any red algae in the family Gelidiaceae (esp. Gelidium crinale)
- —天則natural law; rule of heaven
- —天測astronomical observation; shooting the sun
- —天孫descendant of a god; heavenly grandson
- —天台Tendai sect (of Buddhism)