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尺 U+5C3A, 尺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C3A ← 尹 [U+5C39] CJK Unified Ideographs 尻 → [U+5C3B]

Stroke order

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

• 伬, 呎, 㘮, 𡛄, 鿈, 𢗜, 𣏧, 𬓤, 粎, 蚇, 咫, 𰁗, 𪧆, 𦬨, 𫁶, 庹
• 迟, 尽, 昼 (Simplified form of 遲, 盡, 晝 in mainland China)
• 𡵸, 択, 沢, 𥐮, 䋇, 訳, 釈, 鈬, 駅 (Japanese shinjitai of 嶧, 擇, 澤, 礋, 繹, 譯, 釋, 鐸, 驛)

• 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

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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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):

• 丈 (zhàng), 寸 (cùn), 分 (fēn)

• → English: chi, chek
• → Vietnamese: thước
• → Zhuang: cik

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尺

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

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. shaku (measurement)
2. measure

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku, Jōyō)^{←しやく (syaku, historical)}
• Kan-on: せき (seki)
• Kun: さし (sashi, 尺)、ものさし (monosashi, 尺)

Kanji in this term
尺
しゃく Grade: 6
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 尺 (MC tsyhek).

• (Tokyo) しゃく [shàkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕa̠kɯ̟]

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

     尺 [...] 廣本無上字、説文、尺十寸也、人手却十分動脈爲寸口、十寸爲尺、尺所以指尺規榘事也从尸从乙、乙所識也、今俗呼佐之或呼毛乃佐之 [...]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 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”).

• 尺(しゃく)で鯛(たい)を釣(つ)る (shaku de tai o tsuru)

Kanji in this term
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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.

• Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.
• Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.
• Tadakane, Tachibana with Atsuo Masamune (ed.) (c. 1177-1188) Iroha Jiruishō (in Japanese), Kazama Shobō, published 1971

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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