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).
この部屋は二十平方メートルある。
This room is twenty square meters.
三の平方は九だ。
The square of three is nine.
土地の面積を平方メートルで表す。
to express the area of land in square meters.
Used both for area units (平方メートル = square meter) and for the mathematical square of a number.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 平方メートル: square meter (m²)
- 平方キロメートル: square kilometer
- ~の平方: the square of ~
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 立方: cube; cubic — the three-dimensional counterpart (立方メートル = cubic meter)
- 二乗: squaring; the second power — the math operation of raising to the power of two