Describes something as flat, even, or unremarkable; often used in literary or formal contexts to mean 'mediocre' or 'nothing special'. Not an everyday conversational word.
His grades were nothing special.
I grew tired of the ordinary, uneventful days.
very ordinary; mediocre; all-too-common; quite commonplace
Standard kanji spelling; the repetition mark 々 is also used as 平々.
Variant using the repetition mark; equally valid but less common in modern digital text.
Reduplication of 平 (へい, 'flat, level, ordinary'), emphasizing the quality of being unremarkable or even. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the form follows a common pattern of doubling to intensify or generalize a meaning.