へい

See also: べい

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of へい – see the following entries.
【丙】S
[noun] the third of the ten heavenly stems; something of the third rank
【平】3
[noun] something neither high nor low
[noun] something calm
[affix] even, flat, level
[affix] flatten, level
[affix] uniform
[affix] calm, gentle, peaceful
[affix] common, ordinary, usual
[affix] ellipsis of 平氏 (Heishi) or 平家 (Heike, “Taira clan”)
[affix] (mathematics) square, square root
[proper noun] a surname
【塀】S
[noun] wall
[noun] fence
【兵】4
[noun] a soldier
[noun] a war machine; a weapon
[noun] a battle, a war
[noun] in the old Japanese military structure, the lowest set of ranks for a soldier: a private, corporal, lance corporal
【幣】S
[noun] (Shinto) a staff with cut paper streamers, offered to the gods
[noun] things offered to the Emperor
[noun] a crest pattern of a stylized hei
【弊】S
[noun] ill, evil, harm
[noun] something tired and worn
【炳】H
[adjective] bright, shining,
[adjective] clear to the eye
(This term, へい (hei), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as へい, see Category:Japanese kanji read as へい.)

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 併, 並, 凭, 瓶.)

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