Illustration: Morning light enters a tatami room where a parent is folding a floor mattress into thirds beside its thick quilt and small pillow. A second futon remains spread directly on the tatami, its rumpled covering showing where someone slept.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

布ふ団とん

futon

futon, Japanese bedding

Example sentences

  1. 朝あさになると布団ふとんを片かたづけます。

    In the morning, we put away our futons.

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  2. 布団ふとんをたたみなさい。

    Fold up your bedding.

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  3. 布団ふとんは私わたしたちの寝具しんぐです。

    Futons are our bedding.

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Kanji in 布団

  • 布linen; clothOnフ・ホKunぬの・しく・きれ
  • 団group; associationOnダン・トンKunかたまり・まるい

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