てんちゅう

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Japanese

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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.)