Kanji1 / 12
畳 kanji
tatami mat, counter for tatami mats, fold, shut up, do away with
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ジョウチョウ
Kun readings
たたむたたみかさなる
Variant forms
叠疂疉疊Words with 畳
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1畳Populartatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
- —四畳半Popularfour and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room; small room esp. for assignations
- —一畳one mat
- —重畳being placed one upon another; piling up; being atop another; superimposition; superposition; excellent; splendid; satisfactory; exquisite; wonderful
- —畳語syllable repetition (indicating plurals)
- —畳字iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character)
- —半畳half tatami mat; heckling; jeering; interrupting; hissing
- —畳韻repeated rhymes (in Chinese poetry); recurring rhymes
- —畳数number of tatami (mats)
- —畳句repetition; accumulative clause; refrain; burden
- —三畳紀Triassic period
- —畳成語reiterative
- —二畳紀Permian period
- —千畳敷very spacious hall; grand space; thousand-tatami area; large and flat bedrock terrain; vast rock plateau
- —山岳重畳mountains rising one above another
- —半畳を打つto interrupt; to jeer
- —四畳半趣味enjoying food, drink and entertainment in a small room
- —半畳を入れるto interrupt; to jeer
- —狸の金玉八畳敷きsomething spread out widely; something taking a lot of space; eight jō of a raccoon dog's scrotum
- —起きて半畳寝て一畳one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat