Stroke order

尺 (Kangxi radical 44,尸+1, 4 strokes,cangjie input尸人 (SO),four-corner7780₇,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(Japaneseshinjitai 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

Historical forms of the character尺
Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Uncertain. Various explanations include:

• A man (人) with a mark (乙) on his leg to indicate 10cun (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 10cun (寸). (Shirakawa Shizuka, Lawrence J. Howell)

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 尺(Written Standard Chinese^?)
• chi (unit)(English)

尺

1. chi;Chinese foot(a traditional Chineseunit ofdistance based on the humanforearm and equal to 10cun (寸) or¹/₁₀zhang (丈))
2. (Mainland China)mainland chi; Chinese foot,standardized in 1984 as¹/₃meter
3. (Taiwan)Taiwanese foot, standardized as¹⁰/₃₃ meter andidentical to theJapaneseshaku
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mc; 支mhmn; 桿／杆m)
7. tape measure

• (ruler):

• 丈 (zhàng),寸 (cùn),分 (fēn)

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

尺

1. (music)Kunqugongchenotation for thenotere (2).
2. (music)Cantonese operagongchenotation for thenotere (2).

• “尺”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• (Cantonese)粵音資料集叢
• 李如龙[Li, Ru-long];刘福铸[Liu, Fu-zhu];吴华英[Wu, Hua-ying];黄国城[Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “尺”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page272.

(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)

EnglishWikipedia has an article on:

Shaku (unit)

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JapaneseWikipedia has an article on:

尺

Wikipedia^ja

FromMiddle Chinese尺 (MC tsyhek).

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

尺(しゃく)or尺(せき)• (shakuorseki) 

1. theshaku, "metalshaku", orJapanese foot: atraditionalJapaneseunit oflengthequal to 10sun (寸) or¹⁄₁₀jō (丈),standardized as¹⁰⁄₃₃ of ameter
   • 938,Minamoto no Shitagō,Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 6, page46:

     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 [...]

     (pleaseadd 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, page741:

     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.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

2. the "whaleshaku", avariant of theshakuused inmeasuringclothequal to²⁵⁄₆₆ of ameter
3. length

   動画(どうが)の尺(しゃく)を伸(の)ばす

   dōga noshaku o nobasu

   to prolong a video

   (literally, “to increase thelength of a video”)

   尺(しゃく)が持(も)たない

   shaku ga motanai

   the video is not long enough

   尺(しゃく)が足(た)りなくて話(はな)せなかった話(はなし)

   shaku ga tarinakute hanasenakatta hanashi

   things I couldn't discuss due to running out of time

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, page741:

     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.

     (pleaseadd 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)

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

• IPA^(key): [ta̠ka̠ba̠ka̠ɾʲi]

尺(たかばかり)• (takabakari) 

1. abamboomeasure
   • 938,Minamoto no Shitagō,Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 6, page46:

     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 arule is a bamboo measure,takapakari.

• “^△尺”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025
• Doi, Tadao (1603–1604),Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese),Tōkyō:Iwanami Shoten, published1980,→ISBN.
• Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938),Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese),Kyōto: Rinsen, published1968,→ISBN.
• Tadakane, Tachibana withAtsuo Masamune (ed.) (c.1177-1188),Iroha Jiruishō (in Japanese), Kazama Shobō, published1971

尺 (eum척(cheok))

1. hanja form^? of자(“Korean foot (30.3cm)”)
2. hanja form^? of자(“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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