Se to Square Yards (se to yd²)
1 se equals 118.6105831 square yards (rounded).
How to convert se to square yards
To convert se to square yards, multiply the number of se by 118.6105831. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply square yards by 0.00843095088.
square yards = se × 118.6105831
Example: 10 se = 1,186.105831 square yards.
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 Yard (yd²)
9 square feet (0.8361 m²). Used for carpet, turf and land in the UK and India (where it is called a gaj).
Branches and rods lie behind this unit. The word yard comes from Old English gerd or gyrd, meaning a staff or measuring rod, and it first appears in the late seventh-century laws of Ine of Wessex, where a yard of land was a tax unit. Where its length came from is uncertain: pacing, the cubit and the arm of King Henry I have all been suggested. A square yard is simply a square of that length on each side.
After the 1959 agreement among six countries fixed the yard at exactly 0.9144 meter, the square yard became exactly 9 square feet, 1,296 square inches or about 0.836 m². It is used across the English-speaking world, notably in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India and Pakistan. In northern India it is called a gaj, and in Pakistan a gaz, and house plots there are often quoted in it. In the US and UK the yard, divided into eighths, is also how cloth is bought, so the square yard suits flooring and fabric in the same breath.
1 square yard = 0.83612736 square meters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Square yard; Wikipedia: Yard; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors
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