天気
てんき
hepburn tenki
weather
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
天heavens
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氣spirit
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Examples
- 今日の天気はどうですか。How is today's weather?
- 明日はいい天気です。Tomorrow is good weather.
Collocations
天気予報 (tenki yohou, weather forecast)いい天気 (good weather)悪い天気 (bad weather)天気がいい (weather is good)雨の天気 (rainy weather)
Mnemonic
天気 tenki — 天 (sky) + 気 (vital air): "the energy of the heavens" — and that is the weather. 気 is the kanji that bears state and spirit — it lives in 元気 and in 病気 alike. Reading the sky's energy in advance is 天気予報, the weather forecast. Two kanji make the invisible drift of the atmosphere graspable in the hand. Kanji-reading kin: 天 reads Korean 'cheon', Mandarin tiān.
Quick check
Which word does NOT use the kanji 気 (ki)?