尺

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, 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: 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

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
• → Zhuang: cik

尺

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

(grade 6 “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)

From Middle Chinese 尺 (MC t͡ɕʰiᴇk̚).

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

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
   • 931–938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō (book 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 [...]

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   • c. 1177-1188: Iroha Jiruishō (volume 9, page 55)

     尺 シャク　十寸為尺

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   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (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.

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2. the "whale shaku", a variant of the shaku used in measuring cloth equal to ²⁵⁄₆₆ of a meter
3. length
4. (zoology) The geometer moth (Geometra papilionaria)
   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (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.

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5. (zoology) the inchworm

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

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

• 竹量
• 鷹秤

• IPA^(key): [ta̠ka̠ba̠ka̠ɾʲi]

尺(たかばかり) • (takabakari) 

1. a bamboo measure
   • 931–938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō (book 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

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• Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.
• Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.
• Tadakane, Tachibana; 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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