坪

Translingual

Han character

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

• 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

坪 (Yale ping4)

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Japanese

Kanji

坪 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: へい (hei), ひょう (hyō)
• Kun: つぼ (tsubo)

Etymology

Cognate with 壺 (tsubo, "a basin"). 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.

Noun

坪 (hiragana つぼ, romaji tsubo)

1. A unit of areal measure, in modern usage equivalent to 3.306 square metres, traditionally equivalent to the area covered by two standard-sized tatami mats.

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. pyeong, a traditional unit of measurement

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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