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天然 (てんねん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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この 公こう 園えん に は 天てん 然ねん の 温おん 泉せん が ある 。
This park has a natural hot spring.
Kanji 然 sort of thing, so, if so Related words 自然 is the broader word for 'nature' or 'natural', while 天然 more narrowly stresses that something is unprocessed or occurs untouched by human hands.
天然ボケ is the full, slightly more explicit term for a ditzy, spacey person, while 天然 is the shortened, very casual way to say the same thing.
天然 broadly means naturally occurring as opposed to artificial or processed, whereas 野生 specifically means living wild as opposed to domesticated or cultivated.
Opposites· 5 artificial; man-made; human work
天然 describes something naturally occurring or wild-caught, in contrast to 養殖, which describes something raised in controlled farming conditions.
Written forms 天てん 然ねん Usage 100%
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency word.
てんねん Usage 1%
Etymology From 天 (heaven, nature) and 然 (state, condition), literally 'heaven-made' or 'as it is by nature'. The colloquial sense is a shortening of 天然ボケ (natural fool).
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N2
天然 describes something occurring naturally without human intervention, the direct opposite of 人工的.
Show 2 more 天然 means 'naturally occurring', the direct opposite of 人造 'man-made'.
天然 means 'natural' and contrasts with ケミカル when the latter means 'synthetic' rather than natural in material or product names.
天てん 然ねん ガス
N2
Show 8 more naturally; spontaneously
natural form; native form; naturally occurring
natural salt
naturally growing tree; wild tree · natural wood; solid wood
natural forest
natural bridge; natural arch
natural water; untreated water; spring water
natural harbor
