坪

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Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

坪 (radical 32 土+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土一火十 (GMFJ), four-corner 41149, composition ⿰土平)

  1. level ground
  2. Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean measure of area

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 226, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4976
  • Dae Jaweon: page 461, character 34
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 430, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+576A

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

坪 (Jyutping ping4, Yale ping4)

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
坪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

The on'yomi are not used in modern Japanese.

Etymology[edit]

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坪
つぼ
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kun'yomi

Cognate with 壺 (tsubo). The current meaning related to area arose from the way a surrounded area with the base or floor lower than the circumference looks like a basin.[1]

Although the reading is different, this areal measurement meaning for 坪 is shared in common with the terms 평 (坪, pyeong) in Korean and 坪 (pe5) in Taiwanese.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

坪 (hiragana つぼ, romaji tsubo)

  1. A unit of areal measure, traditionally a square six 尺 (shaku, traditional Japanese unit of length, roughly equivalent to the English foot) per side, equivalent to the area covered by two standard-sized tatami mats. In modern usage, standardized at 3.306 square metres.

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

坪 (pyeong) (hangeul 평, revised pyeong, McCune-Reischauer p'yŏng, Yale phyeng)

  1. pyeong, a traditional unit of measurement
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Mandarin[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

坪 (Pinyin píng (ping2), Wade-Giles p'ing2)

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  2. a traditional measurement of area equal to about 3.306 square meters, roughly 35.57 square feet

Min Nan[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

坪 (TLPA phîng (phing5), pênn (penn5), pînn (pinn5), phênn (phenn5), phînn (phinn5), phiânn (phiann5))

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

坪 (bình)

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References[edit]

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