Pyeong

Pyeong
Listing outside a Korean real-estate agency showing floorspace in square meters and pyeong
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinpíng
Wade–Gilesp'ing
Southern Min
Hokkien POJpêⁿ
pîⁿ
phêⁿ
phîⁿ
phiâⁿ
phêng
Tâi-lôpênn
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Transcriptions
Revised Romanizationpyeong
McCune–Reischauerp'yŏng
Japanese name
Kanji
Kanaつぼ
Transcriptions
Romanizationtsubo

A pyeong (abbreviation py) is a Korean unit of area and floorspace, equal to a square kan or 36 square Korean feet. The ping and tsubo are its equivalent Taiwanese and Japanese units, similarly based on a square bu (ja:步) or ken, equivalent to 36 square Chinese or Japanese feet.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Unit conversion chart". 28 December 2005. Archived from the original on 28 December 2005. Retrieved 25 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "ko:'평' : 네이버 국어사전". Krdic.naver.com. Retrieved 25 August 2017.