Pyeong

Pyeong
Listing outside a Korean real-estate agency showing floorspace in square meters and pyeong
Chinese name
Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinpíng
Wade–Gilesp'ing
Southern Min
Hokkien POJpêⁿ
pîⁿ
phêⁿ
phîⁿ
phiâⁿ
phêng
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.