畳

How to remember it

From 'tatamu' (to fold); woven rush grass stitched over a layered rice-straw core.

Example sentences

• 部屋に畳が敷いてあります。

  へやにたたみがしいてあります。

  Tatami mats are laid in the room.

• この畳は新しいです。

  このたたみはあたらしいです。

  This tatami mat is new.

Usage

Counted with 枚 (まい); room sizes are still measured in tatami-mat counts.

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