cool; calm; composed; all right; fine; OK
calm; composed; cool; quiet
commoner; plebeian; commoner (in Japan between 1869 and 1947; the lowest of the three classes)
tranquil; calm; restful; peaceful; quiet
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
calm; peace; serenity; composure; equanimity; presence of mind
average; mean; balance; equilibrium
fair; impartial; just; fairness; impartiality; justice
weekday; ordinary days (i.e. non-holiday); kanji radical 73
even; flat; level; calm; peaceful; uneventful
unfairness; injustice; partiality
horizon (related to land)
discontent; dissatisfaction; complaint; grievance
horizon (related to bodies of water)
level ground; plain; flatland
one's self-possession; one's presence of mind
normal; usual; ordinary; everyday
average; ordinary; normal
Heisei era (1989.1.8-2019.4.30)
peacetime; time of peace; ordinary times; normal times
Heike family; Taira family; The Tale of the Heike; chanting of the Heike Monogatari
level ground; horizon; field of view
parallelism; running parallel (to, with); running concurrently; occurring at the same time; not reaching an agreement (e.g. of a debate)
peace; tranquility; tranquillity; Heian period (794-1185)
parallel lines; remaining far apart (e.g. in discussions); not reaching an agreement; views that never cross
to keep one's temper; to maintain one's composure; to remain calm; to keep presence of mind; to preserve one's equilibrium
prostrating oneself (in submission, respect, etc.)
suppression (of a rebellion, civil war, etc.); restoration of law and order; subjugation; conquering
usual; ordinary; normal; ordinarily; normally; usually
peace; tranquility; tranquillity; (arch.) happy-go-lucky
sense of equilibrium; sense of balance
peaceful; quiet; uneventful
flat board; slab; monotonous; dull; even pitch; accentless pitch
normal operation (of a train service, bus service, etc.); running normally; normal state of affairs; business as usual
complacency about peace; naive belief in continued peace; ignorance of global conflict
Heike family; Taira family
average value; mean value; mean; expectation
parallel world; parallel universe
prostrating oneself; kowtowing; going down on one's knees
peace talks; peace negotiations
ordinary clothes; everyday attire; plain clothes; civilian clothes
Heian period (794-1185); imperial court in the Heian period
life expectancy (at birth); average life span; mean lifetime
nth year in the Heisei era (1989.1.8-2019.4.30)
The Tale of the Heike; Heike Monogatari
Tenpyō era (729.8.5-749.4.14); Tenbyō era; Tenhei era
Kōhei era (1058.8.29-1065.8.2)
very ordinary; mediocre; all-too-common; quite commonplace
square metre; square meter
Heiji era (1159.4.20-1160.1.10)
balance beam (in gymnastics)
flat; superficial; surface-level; one-dimensional
skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso
average height; average body height
peace throughout the world; carefree; peaceful; relaxed
Taiheiki (Japanese historical epic, said to have been written by Kojima Houshi in the 1370s)
Heian-kyō; former name of Kyoto, capital city of Japan from 794 to 1869
peace; tranquility; tranquillity
square metre; square meter
usually; ordinarily; in the past
peace and tranquility; peace and tranquillity
to maintain (preserve) peace
ground plan; plane figure
averaging; levelling (off); equalization; standardization; balance
square kilometer; square kilometre
Heijō-kyō (capital of Japan from 710-40 and 745-84; located in present-day Nara)
quite unconcerned; nonchalant
War and Peace (1869 novel by Leo Tolstoy)
peace agreement; peace accord
equal temperament; mean-tone tuning
non-leap year; average year (for rainfall, temperature, etc.); normal year
translation; shift; parallel displacement
leveling; levelling; equalization; alleviation (e.g. of unemployment); harmonization
peace conference; peace talks
plain text; unciphered text
annual average; annual mean
Heijō-kyō (capital of Japan from 710-40 and 745-84; located in present-day Nara)
Shōhei era (of the Southern Court) (1346.12.8-1370.7.24)
peace plan; peace program
discontented element; discontented (grumbling) member
commonplace; ordinary; trite; informal and easy to understand (of writing, etc.)
flat plot of land; level land; flat terrain
trans-Pacific; trans-Pacific crossing
discontented former samurai (early Meiji period)
Heisei period (January 8, 1989-April 30, 2019)
Nikkei Stock Average; Nikkei 225
Nikkei Stock Average; Nikkei 225
peace and quiet; safe and peaceful; tranquil and uneventful
peace initiative; peace overture
without compunction; coolly; without batting an eyelid; unscrupulously; nonchalantly; remorselessly
horizontal plane; level surface
Heike biwa; Heike lute; biwa with 4 strings and 5 frets, esp. for accompanying the Heike Monogatari; chanting of the Heike Monogatari to biwa accompaniment
monthly mean; monthly average
tailplane; horizontal stabilizer; horizontal stabiliser
Jōhei era (931.4.26-938.5.22); Shōhei era
Pacific high; Pacific anticyclone
similar to that of an average year; in line with an average year; normal
chanting of the Heike Monogatari to biwa accompaniment
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864)
peace and quiet; safe and peaceful; tranquil and uneventful
normal prices; par; parity
counterweight; counterpoise
foremast hand; common sailor
pacifist constitution (i.e. the current Japanese constitution); peace constitution
bisection; dividing equally
same plane; same level; flush (with); even (with)
with an open and calm mind; without reserve; with utmost candor; with no preconceived notions
pacifism; pacifist thought
square centimeter; square centimetre
extraction of square root
islands of the Pacific Ocean; Pacific Islands
coplanar; in the same plane; flush; even (with)
single-level parking lot; surface parking lot
pride goes before a fall; pride comes before a fall; (lit.) the proud Heike family does not last long
Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011); Tohoku earthquake; Sendai Earthquake; Great East Japan Earthquake
everyday language; The Tale of the Heike
lying down; being laid up; being ill in bed
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Heijō Palace (imperial residence in Heijō-kyō)
Dow (Jones); Dow Jones Industrial Average
square millimeter; square millimetre
the great municipal mergers of the Heisei era; series of large-scale municipal mergers carried out between 1995 and 2010 under the temporary Special Mergers Law
(gymnastics) uneven parallel bars
imbalance; disequilibrium
new commoner; former members of the lowest rank of the Japanese caste system after its abolition in 1871
pitch accent leveling; pronouncing normally pitch-accented Japanese words without accent
circum-Pacific volcanic belt; Ring of Fire
calm water; smooth water; the usual amount of water
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War
peace and quiet; safe and peaceful; tranquil and uneventful
peace and quiet; safe and peaceful; tranquil and uneventful
those who wish to rule the land must first cultivate their own characters, then manage their families, then govern their states; only then can they bring peace to the land
Pacific Standard Time; PST
Betelgeuse (star in the constellation Orion); Alpha Orionis; Alpha Ori; (lit.) Heike star
involvement of peer groups; application to similar products; grassroots (organization, development, movement)
particle horizon of the observable universe
Burakumin rights organization (1922-1942)
unconcerned (about); unbothered; unworried; easy; simple
simple average; arithmetic average
(wishing someone) bon voyage
horizontal specialization
having no fear of heights
vertically condensed type; font compressed by height
peace accord; peace agreement
Zenkoku Suiheisha (Burakumin rights organization; 1922-1942); National Levelers' Association
grade crossing; level crossing
simple and clear; plain and lucid
abyssal plain (2,200-5,500m)
plains indigenous peoples (of Taiwan); plain aborigines
world peace; everyone living peacefully together
Perpetual Peace (by Immanuel Kant)
peacelessness; lacking social peace
Trans-Pacific Partnership; Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement; TPP
Great Pacific garbage patch; GPGP
planography; planographic printing
halter; haltere (small balancing organ on a two-winged fly)
Aquatica lateralis (firefly species)
Heian Jogakuin University; St. Agnes' University
parallel cousins; ortho-cousins
Tricoplaciformes; order of multicellular invertebrates
mean time to repair; MTTR
Pacific Time (US time zone)
Peace Studies Association of Japan; PSAJ
disconformity; parallel unconformity
Heisei International University
mean time to repair; MTTR
mean time to repair; MTTR
plain and lucid; articulate
International Peace Cooperation Headquarters
Fukuyama Heisei University
housewife having an affair while her husband is at work
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
longitudinal magnetic recording
parallel venation (of a leaf); parallel veins
International Pacific University
North Pacific high; North Pacific anticyclone
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification; Unification Church
free and open Indo-Pacific; FOIP
Placozoa (phylum of multicellular invertebrates)
plains area; flatland; plain
World Conference of Religions for Peace
peace organization; peace footing
Tricoplacia (class of multicellular invertebrates)
interest equalization tax; interest equalisation tax
international peace cooperation
international peace activity
mean time between failures; MTBF
conversation on worldly affairs; chat about everyday life (business)
sample mean; sample average
(former) Pacific Bank (failed in 1996)
LRC; Longitudinal Redundancy Check
law of quadratic reciprocity
Universal Peace Federation (affiliate of the Unification Church); UPF
purchasing power parity; PPP
Pacific Accreditation Cooperation; PAC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation; APEC
Pacific Economic Cooperation Council; PECC
average propensity to consume
tangent plane; tangential plane
Diggers (17th-century group of English Protestant radicals); True Levellers
orthogonalized plane wave; OPW
purchasing power parity theory; PPP theory
lowland forest; flatland forest; plain forest
law of equilibrium (Le Chatelier's principle)
mean transinformation (content); average transinformation (content)
climatological normal (30-year average of a climatic element); climate normal
pride goes before a fall; pride comes before a fall; (lit.) the proud Heike family does not last long
regression toward the mean; regression to the mean
Pacific Science Association
mint parity; mint par of exchange
Peace for Vietnam Committee (1965-1974) (abbr)
song in the style of the Heikyoku
Heisei Kenkyūkai (faction of the Liberal Democratic Party)
peaceful overthrow of Chinese communism (alleged Western strategy)
average propensity to save
horizontal tabulation; HT
conditional entropy; mean conditional information content; average conditional information content
Horizontal Redundancy Check
calm condition; normal condition
entropy; mean information content; average information content
Trans-Pacific Partnership; Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement; TPP
punctuated equilibrium (theory of evolutionary biology)
horizontal scanning frequency
Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research
Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation; AAMT
circum-Pacific seismic zone; circum-Pacific earthquake belt
Hiroshima Peace Institute
general colour rendering index (color)
Pacific Research Institute
hakama fabric made from meisen silk
Pan-Pacific concept; Pacific Rim concept
Trans-Pacific Partnership; Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement; TPP
Plebian Society (ca. 1904)
Trans-Pacific Partnership; Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement; TPP
Heian shogi (precursor to modern shogi)
interest equalization tax; interest equalisation tax
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory; PMEL
par value; exchange parity
Heibonsha Ltd (publishers)
even pitch; accentless pitch; Japanese pitch accent pattern with no drop from high to low pitch
vast stretch of desert; vast expanse of sandy plain
Dow Jones Industrial Average
planographic printing; planography
equalization tax (interest, commercial values, etc.)
commonplace and stale; humdrum and hackneyed
Longman's beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus); Indo-Pacific beaked whale; tropical bottlenose whale
Andrews' beaked whale (Mesoplodon bowdoini)