てんちゅう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of てんちゅう – see the following entries.

【天誅】 [noun] punishment served from heaven; divine punishment [noun] punishment served by another in place of heaven

【転注】 [noun] (linguistics) figurative extension of meaning [noun] (Chinese character classification) derivative cognate

(This term, てんちゅう (tenchū), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)