Word Meaning 天下
天下 is read as てんか (tenka) and means shogun (Edo period).
Meaning
English
- shogun (Edo period)
- the whole country
- the whole world
- having one's own way
- doing as one pleases
- society
- the public
- supremacy over a nation
Reading
Kana
てんか
Romaji
tenka
Writing Variants
- 天下 てんが tenga
- 天下 てんげ tenge
Stroke Sequence
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Related Vocabulary
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7天上天下唯我独尊。
Throughout Heaven and Earth, I alone am the honored one.
これは天下一品だ。
This is the best thing on earth.
金は天下の回りもの。
Money comes and goes.
うちはかかあ天下です。
My wife wears the pants in our house.
彼らはバスを降り、炎天下を二キロ歩きました。
They got off the bus and walked two kilometres in the hot sun.
日本の官僚達は国家が破綻するまで天下りを続けて税金をむさぼる国賊に過ぎない!
Japanese bureaucrats are nothing but traitors to the country who covet our tax money and will continue the practice of amakudari until the country is bankrupt.
ブリオシユは、カステラとパンのあいのこみたいな菓子だが、舌ざわりは天下一品である。
The brioche is like the bastard child of sponge cake and bread, but its taste is peerless.
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