Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N2

1665 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: tatami mat, counter for tatami mats, fold, shut up, do away with

Kunyomi: たた.む たたみ かさ.なる

Onyomi: ジョウ チョウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: field

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

6(ろくじょう)   6 tatami mats

む(たたむ)   fold

折りみ椅子(おりたたみいす)   folding chair

(たたみ)   tatami, reed floor matting

屋(たたみや)   tatami mat maker, mat dealer

替え(たたみがえ)   re-covering a tatami mat

(あおだたみ)   new tatami mat

Onyomi Examples

ジョウ tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)

ジョウイン repeated rhymes (in Chinese poetry), recurring rhymes

チョウジョウ placed one upon another, piled up, excellent, splendid, superimposition, superposition

山岳重 サンガクチョウジョウ mountains rising one above another

Kunyomi Examples

たたむ to fold (clothes, umbrella), to close (a shop, business), to vacate

たたみ tatami mat, Japanese straw floor coverings

敷き たたみじき tatami-matted

琉球 りゅうきゅうたたみ Ryūkyū tatami, sturdy and durable tatami that has a facing weaved from Shichito matgrass