昇しょう天てん

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昇天する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

ascension; the Ascension

Christian term for ascending into heaven, especially Jesus's Ascension.

Euphemistic Christian term for death, implying the soul goes to heaven.

rising to heaven; ascending to heaven

General, non-religious sense of rising to the sky or heaven; can be used metaphorically.

〈人ひと〉が昇しょう天てんするfor someone to pass away (euphemistically, to ascend to heaven)
祖そ父ふは静しずかに昇しょう天てんした。
My grandfather quietly passed away.
〈物もの〉が天てんに昇しょう天てんするfor something (e.g. smoke, a soul) to rise up into the sky/heaven
煙けむりがゆっくりと天てんに昇しょう天てんしていった。
The smoke slowly rose up into the sky.

永えい眠みん sense 2
永眠 is a poetic, secular euphemism for death (lit. 'eternal sleep'), while 昇天 specifically implies the soul rising to heaven in a Christian sense.
上じょう昇しょうN2sense 3
上昇 is a general, non-religious word for rising or going up, while 昇天 specifically means rising all the way to heaven, often metaphorically or spiritually.
逝せい去きょ sense 2
逝去 is a formal, respectful term used for another person's death regardless of religion, whereas 昇天 carries a specifically Christian, heaven-bound nuance.
死し去きょN1sense 2
死去 is a neutral, formal word simply meaning 'death,' while 昇天 euphemistically frames death as ascending to heaven.

降こう臨りん
昇天 means ascending to heaven, the direct opposite movement of 降臨's descent of a deity.

昇しょう進しんN2
昇進 means being promoted in rank or position, while 昇天 means ascending to heaven or dying; learners may confuse them because both start with 昇.
仰ぎょう天てん
仰天 means being utterly astonished, while 昇天 means to ascend to heaven or die, and the two are only jokingly linked in the phrase びっくり仰天.

Compound of 昇 (rise) and 天 (heaven). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word is used in both Christian and general contexts.