尺

See also: 呎 and R
尺 U+5C3A, 尺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C3A
← 尹
[U+5C39] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 尻 →
[U+5C3B]

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 299, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7632
  • Dae Jaweon: page 595, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 964, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5C3A

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
尺 *tʰjaɡ
蚇 *tʰjaɡ

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 尺

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chióh - vernacular;
  • chék - literary.
Note:
  • chhioh - vernacular;
  • chhek/chhiak - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 尺
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹⁴/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹³/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩¹³/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹³/
Qingdao /tʃʰz̩⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²⁴/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩¹³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩¹³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰz̩²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰz̩³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰz̩²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩ʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰəʔ²/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʰʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰaʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰɑʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰei²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰiʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰi⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²⁴/
/ʈ͡ʂʰa²⁴/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʰɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɑʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰak̚¹/
Taoyuan /tʃʰɑk̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰɛk̚³/
Nanning /t͡sʰɛk̚³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰɛk̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰik̚³²/
/t͡sʰioʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰuɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰiɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰioʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sek̚³/
/sio⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 尺
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 昌石切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰiæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰiajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chi
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/

Definitions

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
  6. ruler (straightedge) (Classifier: 把)
  7. tape measure
See also

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

尺

  1. (music) Gongche notation of re (2).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

尺

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

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

From Middle Chinese 尺 (tsyhek, “foot (measure)”).

Pronunciation

Noun

尺 (hiragana しゃく, rōmaji shaku, alternative reading せき, rōmaji 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, 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 [...]
    • c. 1177-1188: Iroha Jiruishō (volume 9, page 55)
      尺 シャク　十寸為尺
    • 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.
  2. The "whale shaku", a variant of the shaku used in measuring cloth equal to 125/330 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.
  5. (zoology) The inchworm
Idioms

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /takabakari/

Alternative forms

  • 竹量
  • 鷹秤

Noun

尺 (hiragana たかばかり, rōmaji takabakari)

  1. a bamboo measure
    • 931–938, 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

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

尺 • (cheok) (hangeul 척, revised cheok, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

  1. (자) Korean foot (30.3cm)
  2. (자) measure
  3. (길이) length

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

尺 (xích, xách, xế, xệch, xịch, sệch, xạch)

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References

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