四 畳 半(よじょうはん)

よじょうはん

noun

four-and-a-half-mat room

1. 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(がくせいじだい)は四畳半(よじょうはん)に住(す)んでいた。

In my student days I lived in a four-and-a-half-mat room.

A four-and-a-half-mat room is smaller than you'd expect.

I spent my youth in an old-fashioned four-and-a-half-mat lodging.

A room measuring four and a half 畳(たたみ) (tatami mats), about 7.3 square meters. A classic size for a small, modest room.

The 四畳半(よじょうはん) evokes nostalgic, sometimes romanticized images of frugal student or single life and appears often in literature and film.

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Added 2026.5.25 13:08 · Revised 2026.9.2 13:02

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