天空
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Meanings
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A somewhat literary or poetic term for the vast sky or heavens, often with a grand or spiritual nuance. In everyday speech, 空 (そら) is more common.
Countless stars shone in the night sky, and the heavens were like a jewel box.
He longed to be a bird flying freely through the sky.
Usage patterns
- 天空を舞うto soar/dance through the sky
The sight of an eagle soaring through the sky is beautiful.
- 天空の城a castle in the sky (a fantastical or majestic image)
Atop that mountain stood a building like a castle in the sky.
- 天空に広がるto spread across the heavens
A sky full of stars spread across the heavens.