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four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room
A small room measuring four and a half tatami mats (about 7.3 square meters), a classic size for a modest Japanese room.
学生時代は四畳半に住んでいた。
In my student days I lived in a four-and-a-half-mat room.
四畳半の部屋は思ったより狭い。
A four-and-a-half-mat room is smaller than you'd expect.
昔ながらの四畳半の下宿で、若い頃を過ごした。
I spent my youth in an old-fashioned four-and-a-half-mat lodging.
A room measuring four and a half 畳 (tatami mats), about 7.3 square meters. A classic size for a small, modest room.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 四畳半の部屋: a four-and-a-half-mat room
- 四畳半一間: a single small room
CULTURAL NOTE:
The 四畳半 evokes nostalgic, sometimes romanticized images of frugal student or single life and appears often in literature and film.