天

Meaning

1. n
   sky
2. n
   heaven
3. n
   God
4. n
   svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth)
5. n
   deva (divine being of Buddhism)
6. n
   top (of a book)
7. n
   sole (of a Japanese sandal)
8. n
   beginning; start
9. n abbreviation
   tempura
10. n abbreviation
    India
11. n archaic
    sky

Example sentences

• 神は創造者です。天も地も人も、神以外は全て被造物です。

  God is the creator. Heaven and Earth and people and everything apart from God are created.

• 返事を待つアリスに向けられたのは突然の咆哮。それは耳を貫かんばかりに鋭く、天に届かんばかりに大きく響くものでした。

  What Alice, waiting for a reply, was faced with was a sudden howl. It was a resounding noise, sharp as to burst her ear drums, loud as to reach unto the heavens.

• 父はいつも「天は自ら助くる者を助く」と言っていました。

  My father always said that heaven helps those who help themselves.