天 — heaven, sky

てん天 heaven

Grade 1 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 4 strokes

U+5929 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #512 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #428 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

heaven
sky

word

てん ten On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

天(てん) ten heaven 天(てん) 気(き) tenki weather 天(てん) 下(か) tenka the world お天(てん) 気(き) otenki weather 天(てん) ぷら tenpura tempura 天(てん) 文(もん) 学(がく) tenmongaku astronomy 天(てん) 文(もん) tenmon astronomy 楽(らく) 天(てん) rakuten optimism

あま ama Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

天(あま) 下(くだ) り amakudari descent from heaven

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

おおきい大 big #37

いち一 one #1

Used as component in (2)

かなでる奏 play music かいこ蚕 silkworm

Indicative compound (指事). A line (一) above a person (大, a figure with arms spread). What is above a person standing tall — the sky, the heavens. In oracle bone script, the horizontal line marked the top of a human head.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#37 大 big