tsubo (unit of land area, approx. 3.3 m²)
Standard unit for measuring land and floor space in Japan. One tsubo is about the area of two tatami mats.
This house is built on a 35-tsubo lot.
This room is six tatami mats, which is about three tsubo.
The land area is fifty tsubo.
tsubo (unit of fabric/paper area, approx. 9.18 cm²)
Traditional unit used for small items like fabric or paper. Much smaller than the land-area tsubo.
This cloth is sold by the tsubo (approx. 9.18 cm²).
tsubo (unit of leather/tile area, approx. 918 cm²)
Traditional unit for leather or tiles. Larger than the fabric tsubo but still a small area.
Leather area is sometimes expressed in tsubo (approx. 918 cm²).
cubic tsubo (approx. 6 m³)
Volume unit derived from the land-area tsubo. See also 立坪.
See also: 立坪
Calculate the volume of lumber in cubic tsubo.
This land is being sold at 500,000 yen per tsubo.
It cost ten million yen to build a 40-tsubo house.
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).
坪 is the standard modern traditional area unit, while 合 is one-tenth of a 坪 and rarely used today.
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.
total floor area; gross floor area
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