天 (heavens, imperial, sky) - Kanji Codex

天

heavens, imperial, sky

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

テン

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

あま-あまつあめ

Nanori (名乗り)

あきあもたたかしてなま

Stroke Order

4 / 4

Information

Grade:1

Strokes:4

JLPT:5

Frequency:512

Vocabulary

テン

Word	Reading	Meaning
悪天候	アクテンコウ	bad weather
雨天	ウテン	rainy weather
炎天	エンテン	blazing heat; scorching sun
楽天的	ラクテンテキ	optimistic
後天的	コウテンテキ	acquired (e.g. characteristic); learned (e.g. behaviour); a posteriori

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
晴天	せいでん	fine weather (i.e. little or no clouds); fair weather; clear weather; clear sky; fair skies
天	てん	sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal); beginning; start; tempura; India
天井	てんじょう	ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
天下	てんが	the whole world; the whole country; society; the public; supremacy over a nation; government of a country; the ruling power; having one's own way; doing as one pleases; peerless; incomparable; superlative; world-famous; shogun (Edo period)
天下り	あまくだり	retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation; command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; imposition; descent from heaven

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