平 方(へいほう)

へいほう

noun

square (of a number); square (in area units)

1. square; squared

Square — used to form units of area (square meters, etc.) and, in mathematics, the square of a number (a number multiplied by itself).

This room is twenty square meters.

The square of three is nine.

to express the area of land in square meters.

Used both for area units (平方(へいほう)メートル = square meter) and for the mathematical square of a number.

立方(りっぽう): cube; cubic — the three-dimensional counterpart (立方(りっぽう)メートル = cubic meter)
二乗(じじょう): squaring; the second power — the math operation of raising to the power of two

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Added 2026.5.24 11:02 · Revised 2026.9.2 13:02

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