Two (Number)

by Hla Min

Updated : Dec 2025

Bicameral Parliament ပါလီမန်

• US Congress – Senate & House of Representatives
• UK — House of Lords & House of Common
• Upper House & Lower House

Extremes to be avoided ရှောင်ရန် အစွန်းနှစ်သွယ်

From ဓမ္မစကြာ

• Sensual pleasures
• Self mortification

Meditation

• Samatha သမထ — Concentration meditation
• Vipassana ဝိပဿနာ — Insight meditation

Nama-rupa

နာမ ရူပ

• Nama — Mental formations & characteristics
• Rupa — Physical characteristics

Number

• Hindu-Arabic numeral — 2
• Roman numeral — II
• နှစ် (Two in Burmese)
• ဒုတိယ (Second)
• Duece, Duo, Duet, Duel, Pair

Reality

သစ္စာ

• Sammutti sacca — Pannatti — Apparent reality သမုတိသစ္စာ
• Paramattha sacca — Paramattha — Ultimate reality ပရမတ္ထသစ္စာ

Rowing — Coxless Pairs

ပဲ့နင်းမဲ့ နှစ်တက်လှော်

• Stroke & Bow
• ARAE Regatta Trophy — Venables Bowl

Two tier architecture

• Front end & Back end
• Client & Server

Two valued logic

• Constants — True & False
• Truth table — 4 entries : FF, FT, TF, TT
• Logic Functions — 16

Worldly and beyond

• Loki လောကီ — Mundane (Worldly)
• Lokotra လောကုတ္တရာ — Supramundane (Beyond world)

Chief Disciples

အဂ္ဂသာဝက

• Sariputtra ရှင်သာရိပုတ္တရာ
• Mogallana ရှင်မဟာမောဂ္ဂလန်

General

အထွေထွေ

• Ascent & Descent
• Bicycle : cycle with two wheels
• Binary number system : 0, 1
• Bifocal : Having two foci
• Back court & Front court — Basketball
• Closed & Open — Case; Interval
• Dilemma
• Diode : Cathode & Anode
• Dual & Primal
• Duality — Principle (e.g Geometry, Logic, Linear Programming)
• February — 2nd month in the Gregorian Calendar
• East & West; Eastern & Western
• First half & Second half
• First term & Second term
• Gemini : Heavenly Twins — Castor & Pollux
• Gemini project : Two astronauts
• High & Low
• It takes Two to Tango
• North & South
• President & Vice President
• Prolog & Epilog
• Sports : Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles
• Tea for Two — Song
• TF (True or False) Quiz
• Two heads are better than one — Proverb
• Two Phase Commit — Database
• Up & Down