Illustration: In a busy neighborhood café, a customer accidentally overturns a glass, sending water across a table. Two companions jerk backward with wide eyes and lifted hands.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

平へい静せい

heisei

composure

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれはやがて平静へいせいに戻もどった。

    He soon recovered his composure.

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  2. トムは平静へいせいを保たもとうとした。

    Tom tried to stay calm.

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  3. マーシーはその知しらせを聞きいて泣なき出だしてしまったが、すぐに平静へいせいを取とり戻もどした。

    Marcy burst into tears on hearing the news, but soon pulled herself together.

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Kanji in 平静

  • 平even; flatOnヘイ・ビョウ・ヒョウKunたいら・たいらげる・ひら
  • 静quietOnセイ・ジョウKunしず-・しずか・しずまる

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