Illustration: On a rural hillside above terraced fields, a child stands beside a grandparent beneath a vast evening sky. The view extends from stones and grass at their feet across fields, a winding river, and distant mountains to clouds and the first stars overhead.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

天てん地ち

tenchi

heaven and earth, the universe

Example sentences

  1. 股またのぞきをすると、天地てんちが逆転ぎゃくてんしたように見みえ、まさに天てんにかかる橋はしのようにみえる。

    Viewed in the Matanozoki way, the sky and the earth look upside down, making Amanohashidate look just like a bridge across the sky.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. スサノオはイザナミのいる根ねの国くにへ行いきたいと泣なき叫さけび、天地てんちに甚大じんだいな被害ひがいを与あたえた。

    Susanoo wailed because he wanted to go to the underworld where Izanami was, and he caused extensive damage to heaven and earth.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. むすひは、神道しんとうにおける観念かんねんで、天地てんち・万物ばんぶつを生成せいせい・発展はってん・完成かんせいさせる霊的れいてきな働はたらきのことである。

    Musuhi, a concept embraced in Shinto, refers to a spiritual influence that produces all the things in the universe and helps them develop and complete their cycle.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 天地

  • 天heavens; skyOnテンKunあまつ・あめ・あま-
  • 地ground; earthOnチ・ジ

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