Se to Square Feet (se to ft²)
1 se equals 1,067.495248 square feet (rounded).
How to convert se to square feet
To convert se to square feet, multiply the number of se by 1,067.495248. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply square feet by 0.00093677232.
square feet = se × 1,067.495248
Example: 10 se = 10,674.95248 square feet.
About these units
Se (se)
30 tsubo, about 99.17 m².
Between the humble tsubo and the field-sized tan sits the se, a plot of 30 tsubo. In square metres that is exactly 12,000/121, or about 99.17, which is just under one are, the metric land unit of 100 square metres. A se measures roughly ten metres by ten, a small garden or a slice of a paddy.
The scale is decimal above this point. Ten se make one tan, and a hundred se make one cho, so the se works as the first step in the farmland ladder rather than a unit with a life of its own. Property listings today seldom use it, and it is mostly met in old land records and in conversion tables.
Its exact size comes from the Meiji legal definition. The 1891 law set the shaku at 10/33 metre, and the tsubo as the square of six shaku, so every larger land unit built on the tsubo inherited a fixed metric value. Before that, the shaku itself varied by era and use.
1 se = 99.17355372 square meters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Japanese units of measurement; Wikipedia: Shaku (unit); Wikipedia: Tsubo
Square Foot (ft²)
Exactly 0.09290304 m². The standard unit for floor areas and real estate in the US, UK and India.
Feet came first, and they were not all the same length. As a body-based unit, the foot ranged historically between about 250 and 335 millimeters, with ancient Greek and Roman feet near 300 mm. In medieval England a statute foot was set at 10/11 of an older Belgic foot, and Charlemagne's attempt around 790 to standardize units largely failed. The square foot is simply that length squared, so its size changed along with the foot.
The 1959 international agreement fixed the foot at exactly 0.3048 meter, so one square foot is exactly 0.09290304 m², or 144 square inches. The United Kingdom adopted the new foot in 1964. Today the square foot is the usual way of listing property in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Singapore and Hong Kong, although the measuring convention varies: agents may measure corner to corner, subtract unheated space, or add heated space that extends beyond the end-to-end measurement. The world's smallest park has been reported at 2.6 sq ft.
1 square foot = 0.09290304 square meters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Square foot; Wikipedia: Foot (unit); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors
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