Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
cloudy weather, cloud up
Kun:
くも.る
On:
ドン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1899 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 曇天 【ドンテン】 cloudy sky, overcast sky, cloudy weather
  • 晴曇 【セイドン】 fine weather and cloudy weather

Kun reading compounds

  • 曇る 【くもる】 to get cloudy, to cloud over, to become overcast, to cloud up, to fog up, to mist up, to become dim, to be gloomy, to be clouded (expression), to be downcast, to look slightly downward (of a noh mask; indicating sadness, grief, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
ど、 ずみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tan2
Korean:
dam

Spanish

  • nublado
  • nublarse

Portuguese

  • tempo nublado
  • nublar

French

  • temps couvert
  • se couvrir
1672 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
948 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2160 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1575 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
608 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2685 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
637 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
647 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1281 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
983 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3141 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1610 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2195 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
431 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14172 Morohashi
2521 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2518 New Nelson (John Haig)
424 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
453 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1834 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3871 2001 Kanji
4c12.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-12 SKIP code
6073.1 Four corner code
1-38-62 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66c7 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

Speed

Stroke order

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