天
heaven; heavens; sky; imperial
4 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 512.
Readings
- テン (on reading): 天気 (てんき) weather; 任天堂 (にんてんどう) Nintendo
- あま (kun reading): 天の川 (あまのがわ) Milky Way; 天下り (あまくだり) retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation
- あめ (kun reading): 天山 (あめやま) enormous thing; 天の下 (あめのした) the whole country
- あまつ (kun reading): 天津御姉 (あまつみこ) emperor; 天津御祖 (あまつみおや) imperial ancestor
- Read as a whole word: 天蚕糸 (てぐす) silkworm gut; 伴天連宗 (バテレンしゅう) Christianity; 転び伴天連 (ころびバテレン) former Christian missionary who apostatized and converted to Buddhism (during the Edo period)
Components
Kanji containing 天
Words using 天
- 天気 (てんき) weather
- 任天堂 (にんてんどう) Nintendo
- 天正 (てんしょう) Tenshō era (1573.7.28-1592.12.8)
- 天才 (てんさい) genius
- 天 (てん) sky
- 天の川 (あまのがわ) Milky Way
- 天下り (あまくだり) retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation
- 天邪鬼 (あまのじゃく) perversity
- 天の川銀河 (あまのがわぎんが) Milky Way galaxy
- 天津神 (あまつかみ) heavenly gods
- 天山 (あめやま) enormous thing
- 天の下 (あめのした) the whole country
- 天の (あめの) heavenly
- 天 (あめ) sky
- 天の鈿の女命 (あめのうずめのみこと) Ame no Uzume no Mikoto (Shintō goddess)
- 天津御姉 (あまつみこ) emperor
- 天津御祖 (あまつみおや) imperial ancestor
- 天つ日嗣 (あまつひつぎ) imperial throne
- 天蚕糸 (てぐす) silkworm gut
- 伴天連宗 (バテレンしゅう) Christianity
- 転び伴天連 (ころびバテレン) former Christian missionary who apostatized and converted to Buddhism (during the Edo period)
- 天皇 (すめらぎ) Emperor of Japan
- 天皇弥栄 (すめらぎいやさか) prosperity to the emperor
- 奇天烈 (キテレツ) very strange
- 満天星 (ドウダンツツジ) Enkianthus perulatus (species of flowering plant)
- 奇妙奇天烈 (きみょうきてれつ) extremely weird
- 高天原 (たかまがはら) High Plain of Heaven (home of the gods)
- 天辺押し (てっぺいおし) pressing forward without giving a chance to explain
936 words in all.