天真爛漫

• 読み: てんしんらんまん
• ローマ字: tenshinranman
• 漢字の分解: 天 (ten) — heaven; 真 (shin) — true, genuine; 爛 (ran) — brilliant, glittering; 漫 (man) — unrestrained, overflowing
• 発音: /te.ɴ.ɕiɴ.ɾaɴ.maɴ/

意味

Innocent; naive; artless; ingenuous. Describes a spontaneous, uninhibited cheerfulness free from pretence or social calculation.

A four-character compound (四字熟語, yojijukugo) used as a na-adjective. It describes a personality—typically a person's natural, uncalculated openness to the world. Unlike naivety that implies ignorance or foolishness, 天真爛漫 is generally positive, suggesting a luminous purity of character. Often used to describe children, charismatic figures, or individuals who retain a childlike spontaneity into adulthood.

例文

1. 彼女の天真爛漫な笑顔に、周囲の人々はいつも癒されていた。
2. その子役は台本通りではなく、天真爛漫に演じることで観客を魅了した。
3. 社会経験を重ねても彼の天真爛漫さは失われず、それが強みだった。

使い方ガイド

場面: character description, literature, compliment, personality

トーン: positive

起源と歴史

A four-character compound: 天真 (tenshin, natural truth, heavenly innocence) + 爛漫 (ranman, brilliant, radiant, blooming everywhere). Together they describe a brilliantly open, spontaneously natural character—as if the person were perpetually in full bloom.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal