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The kanji 天: meaning, readings and stroke order
天
- Meaning
- sky, heaven
- On reading
- テン ten
- Kun reading
- あめ ame、あま* ama
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 大 big, very
- Level
- Level 1 · grade 1
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- trời (thiên)
- Japanese
- そら。てん。
- Korean
- 하늘 (천)
- Chinese
- 天空
Readings, words and example sentences
テン ten · on reading
天気
weather
あしたの 天気を しらべます。
I check tomorrow's weather.
あめ ame · kun reading · less common
天地
heaven and earth (old word)
むかしむかし、天地が できた ころの おはなしです。
This is a story from long, long ago, when heaven and earth were made.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
Practise writing 天 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 天 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 1 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.