Japanese

Alternative forms

• ㍻

Proper noun

平成 ‎(hiragana へいせい, romaji Heisei)

1. The Heisei era; the Japanese era beginning on January 8 1989.

   平成 (へいせい)元年 (がんねん)

   heisei gannen

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

See also

• 元年 (がんねん) ‎(gannen)
• 昭和 (しょうわ) ‎(Shōwa): The Shōwa era; the era preceding the Heisei era.

References

• 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4000801112

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3