Illustration: In an empty Japanese apartment room, a tatami installer lowers the sixth and final mat into a precise rectangular gap. Five equally sized mats already cover the rest of the floor, with every border visible from an elevated doorway viewpoint.

JLPT N2counterLevel estimated by Bebop

畳じょう

jou

tatami mats, room-size units

Counts tatami mats and measures room size. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 内部ないぶは18畳じょう1室しつである。

    Inside is one room of eighteen mats.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 主和室しゅわしつは、47畳じょうの畳敷たたみしきである。

    Its main Japanese-style room is tatami-floored with 47 mats.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 次つぎの間まを相伴客しょうばんきゃくの席せきに使つかったとしても三さん畳じょうの空間くうかんである。

    Even if the tsugi no ma is used as seats for accompanying people, it is only a width of three jo.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 畳

  • 畳tatami mat; counter for tatami matsOnジョウ・チョウKunたたむ・たたみ・かさなる

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store