Meanings

heaven, sky, divine, imperial

Radicals

大

Decomposition

⿱一大

Etymology

Ideographic: The heavens 一 above a man 大

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 4

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 diagonal top-to-bottom

4 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

テン ten

デン den

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

あめ ame

あま ama

as in 天の川

あまつ amatsu

Words Using This Kanji

770 words total

テン (10 words)

天てん

heaven / sky / nature

天空てんくう

sky / heavens / firmament

有頂天うちょうてん

euphoria / ecstasy / elation

天漢てんかん

Milky Way / the Milky Way

雲外蒼天うんがいそうてん

after the storm comes the calm / perseverance leads to success

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デン (1 words)

かかあ天下かかあでんか

henpecked husband / wife-dominated household

Other (759 words)

heavenly

naturally curly hair

tempura

thin dipping sauce for tempura

天かすてんかす

tenkasu

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