Jisho

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17 strokes (also 18)
Radical:
spear, halberd
Parts:
be crowned with, live under (a ruler), receive
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2332 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 戴冠式 【タイカンシキ】 coronation ceremony, enthronement
  • 戴冠 【タイカン】 coronation, crowning
  • 奉戴 【ホウタイ】 choosing (a nobleman) as the leader or president of a company or organization

Kun reading compounds

  • 頂く 【いただく】 to receive, to get, to accept, to take, to buy, to eat, to drink, to be crowned with, to wear (on one's head), to have (on top), to have (as one's leader), to live under (a ruler), to install (a president), to get someone to do something
  • 戴くものは夏も小袖 【いただくものはなつもこそで】 taking whatever one can get one's hands on, being greedy, accepting a padded silk sleeve even in summer

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dai4
Korean:
dae

Spanish

  • poner encima
  • coronar
  • recibir agradecidamente
  • comer
  • beber

Portuguese

French

  • couronnement
  • vivre sous (un chef)
  • recevoir
1889 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
795 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2707 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1108 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4093 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2815 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1816 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11685X Morohashi
3302 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2045 New Nelson (John Haig)
2702 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1938 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1459 2001 Kanji
5f12.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-6-11 SKIP code
4-18-4 SKIP code
3-6-12 SKIP code
4385.0 Four corner code
1-34-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6234 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
heavens, sky, imperial
Kun:
あまつあめあま-
On:
テン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
512 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 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

Kun reading compounds

  • 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

Readings

Japanese names:
あき、 あも、 た、 たかし、 て、 なま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tian1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • paraíso
  • cielo
  • imperial

Portuguese

  • paraíso
  • ceú
  • imperiais

French

  • cieux
  • ciel
  • impérial
119 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
67 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
58 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
364 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
16 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
78 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
41 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
93 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
141 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
141 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
462 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
410 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4250 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2148 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2898 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
435 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5833 Morohashi
3442 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1138 New Nelson (John Haig)
428 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
457 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
277 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
34 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3163 2001 Kanji
0a4.21 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-1 SKIP code
1043.0 Four corner code
1-37-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5929 Unicode hex code