Kanji
N2 12 strokes Grade 8 freq #1665

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

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

field ta

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room
stone paving; cobble paving
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
very spacious hall; grand space
Dardanus crassimanus (species of left-handed hermit crab)
toothed top shell (Monodonta labio)
tatami mat with a wooden plank for a core (used in tokonoma, etc.)
Permian period

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

tatami mat; Japanese straw floor coverings
tatami-matted
to fold (clothes, umbrella)
convolutional code
thin tatami mat that can be placed on flooring
fold; crease
to interrupt; to jeer
tatami bed
crease (from folding)
a bad person does not deserve to die in his own bed

Example sentences

He lay on the mat at full length.

My legs ache from sitting on tatami.

He sold his business and retired.

The store closed down for good.