てんか

See also: てんが and でんか

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of てんか – see the following entries.

【天下】 [noun] the whole world, the earth [noun] the whole country, all of Japan [noun] the government of Japan [noun] power, control over the government [noun] (historical, Edo period) the shogun [noun] (card games) in traditional Japanese card games, one of the strong cards known as 蠣 (aza) [noun] short for 天下一 (tenka ichi): the best in the world (often used attributively with the particle の (no))

【天火】 [noun] fire caused by lightning

【天花】 [noun] snow [noun] a flower that blossoms in the Buddhist heaven by their tale. [noun] lotus-petal-shaped confetti scattering before the mortuary tablet.

【点火】 [noun] ignition [verb] to ignite

【添加】 [noun] addition [noun] (mathematics) adjunction [noun] (electronics) doping [verb] to add (of an ingredient, material, or chemical) [verb] (electronics) to dope, to add a dopant to

【甜瓜】 [noun] melon [noun] Oriental melon

【転化】 [noun] change, conversion, transformation [noun] (chemistry) inversion [noun] This term needs a translation to English. [verb] to change, to transform [verb] (chemistry) to invert [verb] This term needs a translation to English.

【転訛】 [noun] (linguistics) corruption [verb] (linguistics, for a word) to be corrupted

【転嫁】 [noun] imputation [verb] to impute, to pass the buck

(This term, てんか (tenka), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 点化, 転科.)