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    3. 天

    天

    天てん

    sky

    N1KMT2News #3+1CoreNounNature & EnvironmentReligion & PhilosophyKanji Vocab4 strokes

    てん

    Noun

    1.
    sky
    2.
    heaven
    Christianity
    3.
    God
    4.
    svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth)
    Buddhism
    5.
    deva (divine being of Buddhism)
    Buddhism
    6.
    top (of a book)
    7.
    sole (of a Japanese sandal)
    8.
    beginning, start
    9.
    tempura
    abbreviation
    10.
    India
    abbreviationobsolete term

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    空そらには青あおい天てんが広ひろがっている。

    A blue sky stretches across the heavens.

    KMT2Nature & Environment
    天てんからの恵めぐみに感かん謝しゃする。

    I am grateful for blessings from heaven.

    KMT2Religion & PhilosophyNature & Environment
    天てん高たかく馬うま肥こゆる秋あき。

    Autumn, when the sky is high and horses grow fat.

    KMT3Nature & EnvironmentLiterature
    彼かれは天てん国ごくへ行いったと信しんじている。

    He believes he went to heaven.

    KMT3Religion & Philosophy
    天てんに召めされるとは、死しぬことを意い味みする。

    “To be called to heaven” means to die.

    KMT4Religion & PhilosophyCore Concepts

    Kanji that make up this word

    天
    あまつ・あめ・あま-…(7)
    heavens・sky・imperial
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