U+7573 "畳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7573 "畳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) and Japanese kanji that primarily means "tatami" or "to fold," "to pile up," or "to repeat." In modern Japanese, it is most commonly used in the words "tatami" (畳), referring to the traditional woven straw flooring mats, and "jō" (畳), a unit of area for measuring room size based on tatami mat dimensions. In Chinese, it is a variant of the character 疊 (dié), carrying meanings of layering, folding, or accumulating, though it is less frequently used in contemporary Chinese compared to its Japanese prevalence. Visual composition combines the radical for "field" (田) with elements suggesting overlapping or stacking, reflecting its semantic focus on things that are layered or folded together.