てん

See also: テン and でん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of てん – see the following entries.

【点】2 [counter] items or goods [counter] points; marks (in a competition, examination, etc.) [noun] spot, dot [noun] score, grade, mark(s) [noun] point (clarification of this definition is needed)

【天】1 [noun] the sky, the heavens [noun] heaven [noun] (Buddhism) a deva or devi [noun] (figurative) the gods, providence, fate [noun] (printing, of a page) the top margin [affix] the sky, the heavens [affix] heaven [affix] Short for 天ぷら (tenpura).

【店】2 [suffix] store, branch (of a store company)

【展】6 [suffix] exhibition

【転】3 [noun] alteration of a word in sound or meaning [noun] Synonym of 転句 (tenku, “third line of a Chinese quatrain”)

【典】4 [noun] ceremony [noun] rule

【貂】H [noun] Japanese marten, Martes melampus Alternative spellings 黄鼬, テン

【篆】H [noun] seal script

【滇】H [proper noun] (historical) Dian Kingdom

(This term, てん (ten), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as てん, see Category:Japanese kanji read as てん.)

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 纏, 恬, 奠.)