てんじやう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of てんじやう – see the following entries.
天井てんじょう
[noun] [from 759] ceiling
[noun] [from 1400s] the highest place inside an object
[noun] [from 1814] (by extension) the top price of something
天上てんじょう
[noun] the distant sky, the heavens
[noun] heaven, afterlife
[noun] acme, zenith, that above which there is nothing
[verb] to ascend to heaven
[verb] to die
(This term, てんじやう (tenzyau), is a historical kana spelling of the above terms.)