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天てん
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Meanings
Noun
1. sky
2. heaven
3. God
4. svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth)
5. deva (divine being of Buddhism)
6. top (of a book)
7. sole (of a Japanese sandal)
8. beginning; start
9. tempura (Abbreviation)
Kanji used
天heaven
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary
天てん引びき
deduction in advance (of tax, interest, etc.)
Noun
天てん真しん爛らん漫まん
innocent; naive; artless; unaffected; genuine; childlike
Na-adjective
吉きち祥じょう天てん
Sri-mahadevi (consort of Vaishravana)
Noun
吉きっ祥しょう天てん
Sri-mahadevi (consort of Vaishravana)
Noun
大だい黒こく天てん
Mahakala (incarnation of Mahesvara); Daikokuten; god of wealth
Noun
増ぞう長ちょう天てん
Virudhaka (Buddhist deity)
Noun
野や暮ぼ天てん
boorishness; coarseness; stupidity
Noun
野の天てん風ぶ呂ろ
open-air bath
Noun
天てん主しゅ教きょう
(Roman) Catholicism
Noun
九きゅう天てん直ちょっ下か
falling headlong; plummeting; sudden crash
Noun
天てん眼がん鏡きょう
magnifying glass (esp. in physiognomy, palm reading, etc.)
Noun
天てん産さん物ぶつ
natural products
Noun
Examples16
Marriage is made in heaven.
He looked up at the sky.
He got assistance from above.
Poverty is, in a sense, a blessing.
Her baby was a great blessing to her.
Mt. Fuji soars heavenward.