Kanji Detail for 尺 - "unit of length, ruler, brief"

尺

Jōyō Kanji
Kyōiku Kanji

JLPT N1

ES grade 6

Meaning
尺 means "unit of length, ruler, brief."
1. Foot - A unit of measurement; about 30cm.
2. Ruler - A measuring tool; a scale.
3. Small - Little; short.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

shaku; Japanese foot; measure; scale; rule

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

Chinese measure approx. 'foot'

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

ruler, tape-measure; unit of length, about 1 ft.

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A measure. Ten 分 make one 寸. Ten 寸 make one 尺.
Onyomi

seki(セキ)

shaku(シャク)
Kunyomi

sashi(さし)
Strokes

4 strokes
Radical

尸 (shikabane・kabane・shikabanekammuri)
Related Keywords
unit of length ruler brief letter small shaku foot compact distance measurement measuring scale