尺
HSK 4freq #4305
Meanings
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- 1.a Chinese foot
- 2.one-third of a meter
- 3.a ruler
- 4.a tape-measure
- 5.one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine
- 6.CL:支[zhī],把[bǎ]
- 1.one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺谱[gōng chě pǔ]
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Wiktionary
- 1.chi; Chinese foot (a traditional Chinese unit of distance based on the human forearm and equal to 10 cun (寸) or ¹/₁₀ zhang (丈))
- 2.mainland chi; Chinese foot, standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ meter
- 3.Taiwanese foot, standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ meter and identical to the Japanese shaku
- 4.chek; Hong Kong foot, standardized as 0.371475 meters
- 5.imperial foot
- 6.ruler (straightedge) (Classifier: 把 m c; 支 m h mn; 桿／杆 m)
- 7.tape measure
- 8.Kunqu gongche notation for the note re (2).
- 9.Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note re (2).
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Etymology
Uncertain. Various explanations include: * A man (人) with a mark (乙) on his leg to indicate 10 cun (寸) above the foot. (Lin Yiguang, 1920) * Differentiation of 乇 (OC *ʔr'aːɡ), 宅 (OC *r'aːɡ), or 斥 (OC *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ). (He Linyi, 1998, Ji Xusheng, 2014) * Pictogram (象形) of a hand, more specifically the thumb and the middle finger, stretched out to measure the length of 10 cun (寸). (Shirakawa Shizuka, Lawrence J. Howell)
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Related words
尺寸 size; dimensions; measurements (esp. of clothes)尺度 scale尺子 ruler (measuring instrument)市尺 chi (Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ meter)角尺 set square (tool to measure right angles)尺规 ruler and compass (in geometric constructions)皮尺 tape measure尺骨 ulna (anatomy)卷尺 tape measure (usu. retractable)尺八 shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute)探尺 dipstick尺蠖 looper caterpillar, larva of moth in family Geometridae