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Kanji Detail for 平 - "flat, peace, fair"

平

  • Meaning

    平 means "flat, peace, fair."

    1. Flat - Level; even.

    2. Peace - Calm; tranquility.

    3. Ordinary - Normal; usual.

    4. Fair - Just; equal.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    even; flat; peace

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    flat, level, even; peaceful

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Ping

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    flat, level, even; peaceful

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Level; flat. Without tilting or height difference is called 平. Such as 水平, 地平. Two lines proceeding at the same distance are called parallel lines. Or regarding solids, such as 平圓, 平三角. | Equal; uniform. Such as 平速, 平等. Equalizing taxes is called 平準. The Records of the Grand Historian has a Treatise on Leveling, about methods of balancing taxation. Now, selling rice at reduced prices to stabilize market prices is called 平糶, same meaning. | Pacified. Such as 一波未平、一波又起. Hence, not resisting is 平服. Tranquil without incident is 平安, 太平. | To pacify. Such as 平亂, 平反, meaning making the wrongly accused innocent. | Peaceful. Feeling indignant is 不平. In Spring and Autumn, when states made peace, it was called 平. | Ordinary. Such as 平生, 平日. | Simple. Such as 平淡無奇. | A standard for weights. Such as 關平, 漕平. Also written as 秤. | The reading of characters has four tones: level, rising, departing, entering. Smooth without highs and lows is called 平聲. | 平平: Deliberating and governing. See (Book of Documents).
  • Onyomitip

    byo(びょ) びょ

    hei(へい) へい

    hen(へん) へん

    hyo(ひょ) ひょ

  • Kunyomitip

    tai.ra(たいら) たいら

  • Strokestip

    5 strokes

  • Radicaltip

    干 (kan・ichiju・hosu)

  • Related Keywords
    flat level even peace calm tranquil ordinary normal usual fair equal just balance steady stable smooth plain simple common serene

Sentences including 平

  • What a good teacher mr hirayama is !

  • We all wish for permanent world peace.

  • I don't care what people say.

  • She is always complaining of one thing or another.

  • Try to write in plain english.

  • He made a speech in connection with world peace.

  • We live in peace.

  • There is no one that does not long for world peace.

  • She does nothing but complain.

  • We will keep the peace at all costs.

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