坪つぼ

つ

ぼ

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Meanings

Standard unit for measuring land and floor space in Japan. One tsubo is about the area of two tatami mats.

Traditional unit used for small items like fabric or paper. Much smaller than the land-area tsubo.

Traditional unit for leather or tiles. Larger than the fabric tsubo but still a small area.

cubic tsubo (approx. 6 m³)

Volume unit derived from the land-area tsubo. See also 立坪.

〈数かず〉坪つぼの土と地ちa plot of land measuring ... tsubo
この家いえは35坪つぼの土と地ちに建たっている。
This house is built on a 35-tsubo lot.
坪つぼあたり〈数かず〉円えん... yen per tsubo
この土と地ちは坪つぼあたり50ごじゅう万まん円えんで売うられている。
This land is being sold at 500,000 yen per tsubo.
〈数かず〉坪つぼの家いえa house of ... tsubo in floor area
40坪よんじゅつぼの家いえを建たてるのに1000せん万まん円えんかかった。
It cost ten million yen to build a 40-tsubo house.

平へい米べい sense 1
坪 is the traditional Japanese land-area unit (≈3.3 m²), while 平米 is the metric square-meter unit now used in official documents.
畳じょうN2sense 1
坪 measures land or floor area as a fixed unit (≈3.3 m²), while 畳 counts tatami mats and is used more informally to describe room size (1坪 ≈ 2畳).
反たんN1
坪 is a smaller traditional unit for land area (about 3.3 m²), while 反 measures a larger plot (about 300 坪, roughly 992 m²).
合ごう
坪 is the standard modern traditional area unit, while 合 is one-tenth of a 坪 and rarely used today.

立りゅう坪つぼ sense 4
坪 usually refers to an area unit, but 立坪 is the related volume unit (≈6 m³), so the two are easy to mix up despite differing in dimension.

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Originally a unit of area derived from the size of two tatami mats. The kanji 坪 combines 土 (earth) and 平 (flat), suggesting a flat piece of land.