The Western equivalent is the C major scale, Ionian mode.

All of these outlets have the bright, well-designed interiors of their Western equivalents.

These were the seven main grades, with tentative Western equivalents, in descending order:

Called a counting board, the device, painted onto a table or a cloth that covered a table, was the Western equivalent of the abacus.

There is no real Western equivalent to the Nataraja image.

In terms of repertory and approach, its closest Western equivalent is a pops orchestra.

There was the Western equivalent to the Oriental inscrutability: the military man.

In complexity, both works are years ahead of their Western equivalents.

Nor was there a Western equivalent of the enormous workshops that, in centuries to come, filled these emperors' warehouses.

The Western equivalent to Chinese herbs is pharmaceutical drugs, such as antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medicines.