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天国 (てんごく, tengoku) Japanese meaning: heaven | Kotomora
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じ
られ
て
いる
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He is believed to have gone to heaven.
This place is just like paradise.
Usage patterns 〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 は 〈 物もの 〉 の 天てん 国ごく だ a place is a paradise for (something)
This town is a foodie's paradise.
天てん 国ごく のような 〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 a heavenly, paradise-like place
That beach was a heavenly place.
天てん 国ごく へ 行い く to go to heaven (die)
Related words 極楽 is the Buddhist term for the paradise after death (as in 極楽浄土), while 天国 is a broader, more general word for heaven that also covers Christian and secular ideas of paradise.
天国 usually means heaven in a religious or afterlife sense, while 楽園 can describe any ideal, blissful place whether religious or secular.
天国 is the native Japanese word for heaven or paradise, often carrying religious or spiritual weight, while パラダイス is a casual loanword used for earthly bliss like a tropical island.
天国 specifically means paradise or the blissful afterlife, whereas 天 is the broader term for heaven or the divine realm in general.
天国 specifically means 'heaven', a pleasant afterlife destination, while あの世 is a neutral term for the afterlife with no implication of good or bad.
Opposites 天国 is heaven or paradise, while 地獄 is hell, a place of suffering.
天国 'heaven' contrasts with 地上 in its figurative sense of 'this mortal world'.
天国 means heaven, the conceptual opposite of ヘル (hell), though 天国 is far more common in everyday Japanese.
天国 is the paradise or heaven where good souls dwell, the direct opposite of 魔界, the realm of demons and dark forces.
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound of 天, “heaven,” and 国, “realm” or “kingdom.” It has been used for a heavenly realm and was later adopted as a standard translation for the Christian Heaven.
out-dated reading
Obsolete kana usage; not used in modern Japanese.
