てんどう

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For pronunciation and definitions of てんどう – see the following entries.
天道
[noun] [from 751] laws of nature
[noun] [from circa 903] the god of heaven, the god of creation the king or emperor of heaven
[noun] [from 1603] the path taken through the sky by heavenly objects; (by extension) the (celestial, astronomical) heavens, the sky
[noun] [from 1424] heaven, a land above the clouds
[noun] [from 985] (Buddhism) the heavenly realm, the gods realm (see also Saṃsāra (Buddhism)#Realms of rebirth)
[noun] [from 1500s] (astronomy) the sun (more often found with the reading tentō)
天堂
[noun] heaven
(This term, てんどう (tendō), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)