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See also: 呎 and R

Stroke order
4 strokes

尺 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 尸人 (SO), four-corner 77807, composition ⿸尸㇏)

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 299, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7632
  • Dae Jaweon: page 595, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 964, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5C3A
Old Chinese
尺 *tʰjaɡ
蚇 *tʰjaɡ

Uncertain. Various explanations include:

trad. 尺
simp. # 尺

Note: 'chí' pronunciation only used in 尺寸 (chícun).

Note:

  • ciak1 - “chi”;
  • ciak4 – “ruler”.

Note:

  • chióh - vernacular;
  • chék - literary.

Note:

  • cieo5 - vernacular;
  • cih6 - literary.

Note:

  • chhioh/sioh - vernacular;
  • chhek/chhiak - literary.

Note:

  • cioh4 - Shantou;
  • ciêh4 - Chaozhou.
    • (Leizhou)
      • Leizhou Pinyin: qio7 / qig4
      • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰiɔ⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰik̚⁵/

Note:

  • cio7 - vernacular;
  • qig4 - literary.

Note:

  • cha6 - vernacular;
  • chr6 - literary.

Note:

  • qio2 - vernacular;
  • qi2 - literary.

Note:

  • qia6 - vernacular;
  • qi6 - literary.
    • Dialectal data
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 尺
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		chǐ
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ tsyhek ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*tʰAk/
    English foot (measure)

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
    * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
    * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

    * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 尺
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 1461
    Phonetic
    component         		尺
    Rime
    group         		鐸
    Rime
    subdivision         		0
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		尺
    Old
    Chinese         		/*tʰjaɡ/

    尺

    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 China) mainland chi; Chinese foot, standardized in 1984 as 1/3 meter
    3. (Taiwan) Taiwanese foot, standardized as 10/33 meter and identical to the Japanese shaku
    4. (Hong Kong) chek; Hong Kong foot, standardized as 0.371475 meters
    5. (informal) imperial foot
      Synonyms: 英尺 (yīngchǐ), 呎 (chǐ)
    6. ruler (straightedge) (Classifier: 把 m c; 支 m h mn; 桿／杆 m)
    7. tape measure
    • (ruler):

    Dialectal synonyms of 尺子 (“ruler”) [map]

    trad. 尺
    simp. # 尺

    尺

    1. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note re (2).
    2. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note re (2).

    尺

    (Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

    1. shaku (measurement)
    2. measure
    Kanji in this term
    尺
    しゃく
    Grade: 6
    on'yomi

    From Middle Chinese 尺 (MC tsyhek).

    尺(しゃく) or 尺(せき) • (shaku or seki) 

    1. the shaku, "metal shaku", or Japanese foot: a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10 sun (寸) or 1⁄10 jō (丈), standardized as 10⁄33 of a meter
      • c. 1177-1188: Iroha Jiruishō (volume 9, page 55)

        尺 シャク　十寸為尺

        (please add an English translation of this usage example)

      • 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 741:

        Xacu. シャク (尺) 1 palmoよりも少し長い, ある尺度. 例, Ixxacu, nixacu. (一尺, 二尺) Xacuuo toru. l, xacudoru. (尺を取る. または, 尺取る) 上述のようなpalmoを単位として寸法を計る.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    2. the "whale shaku", a variant of the shaku used in measuring cloth equal to 25⁄66 of a meter
    3. length
      動画(どうが)の尺(しゃく)を伸(の)ばす
      dōga no shaku o nobasu
      to prolong a video
      (literally, “to increase the length of a video”)
    4. Short for 尺障泥 (shaku aori, “geometer moth, Geometra papilionaria”).

      • 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 741:

        Xacu. l, xacumuxi. シャク. または, しゃくむし (尺. または, 尺虫) 歩くときに身を縮めたりしながら進む一種の小虫. Xacude taiuo tçuru. (尺で鯛を釣る) 諺. この小虫で鯛を釣って取る人のように, 小さなもので大きなものを手に入れる.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    5. Short for 尺取虫 (shaku-tori mushi, “inchworm”).
    Kanji in this term
    尺
    たかばかり
    Grade: 6
    kun'yomi
    Alternative spellings
    竹量
    鷹秤

    Compound of bound 竹 (taka, “bamboo”) +‎ 測り (hakari), voiced due to compounding.

    • IPA(key): [ta̠ka̠ba̠ka̠ɾʲi]

    尺(たかばかり) • (takabakari) 

    1. a bamboo measure

      • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 6, page 46:

        尺 魏武上雜物䟽云、象牙尺、齒亦反、辨色立成云、尺竹量也、太加波可利

        Rule The Record of Emperor Wei Wu's Various Possessions speaks of an ivory rule, fanqie shaku. The Establishment of Distinct Colours says a rule is a bamboo measure, takapakari.
    1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

    尺 (eum 척 (cheok))

    1. hanja form? of 자 (“Korean foot (30.3cm)”)
    2. hanja form? of 자 (“ruler; straightedge”)

    尺: Hán Việt readings: xích[1][2][3][4]
    尺: Nôm readings: xệch[2][5][4], xách[1][5], xế[2][5], xích[3][6], sệch[2], xạch[2], xịch[5]

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