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The Kanji Map

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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

512 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 4

Meaning: heavens, sky, imperial

Kunyomi: あまつ, あめ, あま-

Onyomi: テン

Composition: 大 一

天

Radical

Radical: 大

Reading: だい

Meaning: big, very

Strokes: 3

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Examples

Examples with audio

天気(てんき)   weather, fine weather

天候(てんこう)   weather

天国(てんごく)   heaven

天皇(てんのう)   emperor

天才(てんさい)   genius

晴天(せいてん)   fine weather

雨天(うてん)   rainy weather

先天的な(せんてんてきな)   innate

天(あめ)   heaven, sky

天の川(あまのがわ)   Milky Way

Onyomi Examples

天 (テン) 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

天下 (テンカ) 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)

炎天 (エンテン) blazing heat, scorching sun

楽天 (ラクテン) optimism

Kunyomi Examples

天津 (あまつ) heavenly, imperial

天津乙女 (あまつおとめ) celestial maiden

天 (あめ) sky

天地 (てんち) heaven and earth, the universe, the world, nature, land, world, realm, sphere, top and bottom, gods of heaven and earth

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