てんちゅう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of てんちゅう – see the following entries.
【天誅】
[noun] punishment served from heaven; divine punishment
[noun] punishment served by another in place of heaven
【転注】
[noun] (linguistics) figurative extension of meaning
[noun] (Chinese character classification) derivative cognate
(This term, てんちゅう (tenchū), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
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