The Japanese Radical: 天


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Meaning
heaven, sky    天

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT 5Joyo 1
heaven, sky, paradise
ame, ama-, TEN
A big person with the sky above him
As wide as the spread arms of the big person is: the sky.  
JLPT 4Joyo 3
send, dispatch
okuru,
Left: movement , right: sth. coming out (e.g. steam) and sky, heaven
Out of heaven, this movement was sent.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
silkworm
kaiko, SAN
Top: sky/heaven , bottom: insect (body and sting of an insect)
What a heavenly insect is: the silkworm!  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
roll, scroll, reel, coil
maki, maku, KAN
Top: the border guard known from "checkpoint" 関 (= person with raised arms and two barrier bars , [here: two rolls], bottom: self (Following the winding path I find myself)
The person with the raised arms has rolled himself the two rolls . (Maki-Sushi? 巻き寿)  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
laugh, smile
warau, emu, SHŌ
Top: bamboo , below: early-death 夭 (here: sky, heaven )
Bamboo that grows up to heaven? This is to laugh!  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
play music, perform, report
kanaderu,
From top: three 三, person , sky/heaven
Three persons over the sky play music.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
arrow
ya, SHI
Upper left: an accent/emphasis which here is seen as an arrow. Rest: heaven/sky:
The stroke in the sky is an arrow.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
bloom, blossom
saku,
Left: mouth , right: out of , heaven/sky
Like a mouth out of heaven looks this blossom.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
illness, speed, quick, swift
SHITSU
Outside: illness (An ice--cold building 广 makes you sick.), below: arrow (an arrow in the sky )
Illnesses caused by arrows are illnesses that come quickly.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
(royal) we
CHIN
Left: body /, right: 关 (coming out of , heaven/sky )
A body, out of the heaven: that's Us.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
add, append, attach, annexed, accompany, garnish
sou/eru, TEN
Top: fertility 沃 (.. by the water from the sky ), bottom right: heart
(New babies are born?) With fertility in the heart we will add some.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
copy, transcribe

Left + top: imperial WE (A body / out of the heaven : that's Us), below: word
Our imperial word is copied (= widely distributed).  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
jumping up, inflation, rise

Left + top: imperial WE (A body out of the heaven : that's Us), below: horse (flying mane, galloping legs and tail フ)
Monthly we [= two persons with lifted arms ] are frightend about the horse(-price) inflation.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
wisteria (bot.)
fuji,
From top: plant , imperial WE (A body / out of the heaven : that is Us), water
The plant that is imperial and appears like flowing water: the wisteria.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
bewitching, attractive
ayashii,
Left: woman , right: early-death 夭 (here understood as heaven )
Women are like heaven: attractive and bewitching.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
fertility
YOKU
Left: water , right: early-death 夭 (here understood as: heaven )
The water from heaven (= the rain) brings fertility.  

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