Illustration: In a Japanese apartment living room, a helium balloon has floated up and become trapped against the flat ceiling beside a circular ceiling light. A parent stands carefully on a short household stepladder, reaching for its dangling ribbon.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

天てん井じょう

tenjou

ceiling

Example sentences

ハエは天井てんじょうを歩あるくことができる。
A fly can walk on the ceiling.
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彼かれは天井てんじょうを見上みあげた。
He looked up at the ceiling.
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彼かれは天井てんじょうを青あおく塗ぬった。
He painted the ceiling blue.
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Kanji in 天井

天heavens; skyOnテンKunあまつ・あめ・あま-
井well; well cribOnセイ・ショウKunい

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