てんちゅう

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Japanese

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