平成

平成

1. (literary) to plan everything well

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 平成 (Heisei).

平成

1. Heisei era of Japanese history

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Literally "becoming peaceful" or "peace everywhere". Based on two Literary Chinese passages, one from 史記 (Shiki, “the Records of the Grand Historian”) and the other from 書経 (Shokyō, “the Book of Documents”):

内平外成 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad. and simp.]

From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

nèi píng wài chéng [Pinyin]

Internal peace, external accomplishment;

in Japanese, 内平らかにして外成る (uchi tairaka ni shite soto naru), and

地平天成 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad. and simp.]

From: The Book of Documents, circa 7^th – 4^th centuries BCE

dì píng tiān chéng [Pinyin]

The earth has been rendered peaceful, and the (influence of) heaven has become complete.

in Japanese, 地平らかにして天成る (chi tairaka ni shite ten naru)

• (Tokyo) へーせー [hèéséé] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [he̞ːse̞ː]

平(へい)成(せい) • (Heisei) 

1. the Heisei era, 1989-2019

   平成(へいせい)元年(がんねん)

   Heisei gannen

   the first year of Heisei (1989 in the Gregorian calendar)

• → English: Heisei
• → Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 平成 (Píngchéng)
• → Korean: 헤이세이 (Heisei)
• → Vietnamese: Heisei, Bình Thành

• 昭和(しょうわ) (Shōwa) (era preceding Heisei)
• 令(れい)和(わ) (Reiwa) (era following Heisei)

• Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

平成

1. chữ Hán form of Bình Thành (“Heisei era of Japanese history”)