天眼通

Japanese
Kanji in this term
天 眼 通
てん
Grade: 1		 がん
Grade: 5		 つう
Grade: 2
kan’on goon
Kanji in this term
天 眼 通
てん
Grade: 1		 げん
Grade: 5		 つう
Grade: 2
goon

Etymology

From 天眼(てんげん) (tengen, “heavenly eye”) + 通(つう) (tsū, “power”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) てんがんつう [tèńgáńtsúú] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [tẽ̞ŋɡã̠nt͡sɨᵝː]
  • (Tokyo) てんげ​んつう [tèńgéꜜǹtsùù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [tẽ̞ŋɡẽ̞nt͡sɨᵝː]

Noun

天(てん)眼(げん)通(つう) or 天(てん)眼(がん)通(つう) • (tengentsū or tengantsū) 

  1. (Buddhism) clairvoyance, one of the 六神通 (rokujinzū, “six abhijñā (“higher power”)”)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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