Illustration: At a Japanese housing consultation, a couple examines a detailed apartment model with the roof removed. Its entrance leads into a corridor connecting a bathroom, toilet, kitchen, living room, and two bedrooms; walls and door openings make every connection clear.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

間ま取どり

madori

room layout

Example sentences

  1. 江戸時代後期以降えどじだいこうきいこうになると「田たの字型じがた」の間取まどりが広ひろく普及ふきゅうしていった。

    In the latter half of the Edo period and later, the floor layout with the shape of the Chinese character 田 came into wide use.

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

  2. この間取まどりは結婚けっこんや葬儀そうぎなど人ひとが多おおく集あつまる行事ぎょうじに使つかうことを意識いしきしたものである。

    This layout was adopted in consideration of using the house for events with many participants, such as wedding ceremonies and funeral ceremonies.

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

  3. 決けっして贅沢ぜいたくな間取まどりではないが、当時とうじの一般庶民いっぱんしょみんの住宅じゅうたくよりは良よかったという。

    Its room arrangement is said to have been far from luxurious, but better than that of the ordinary people at that time.

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

Kanji in 間取

  • 間space; intervalOnカン・ケンKunあいだ・ま・あい
  • 取takeOnシュKunとる・とり・とり-

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