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

尺

  • Meaning

    尺 means "unit of length, ruler." Also associated with brief.

    1. Foot - A unit of measurement; about 30cm.

    2. Ruler - A measuring tool; a scale.

    3. Small - Little; short.

  • Words using 尺

    • 尺度 しゃくど Listen gauge; standard; measure
    • 巻尺 まきじゃく Listen tape measure

  • Four-character idioms with 尺

    • 垂涎三尺 すいぜんさんじゃく Listen avid desire; drooling over (something); watering at the mouth
    • 寸善尺魔 すんぜんしゃくま Listen in evil, there is odds; there is more evil than good in this world; one good thing tends to cause many bad things to happen
    • 寸進尺退 すんしんしゃくたい Listen one step forward, many steps backward; little to gain and much to lose
    • 百尺竿頭 ひゃくせきかんとう Listen the highest state of one's enlightenment; the highest level one can attain

  • Tattoo check: 尺

    • Verified meaning: unit of length, ruler
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read せき)
    • Also carries these associations: brief

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 尺

    Surnames 尺(せき)Listen

  • 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

    tip

    seki(セキ) セキ

    shaku(シャク) シャク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    sashi(さし) さし

  • Strokes

    tip

    4 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    尸 (shikabane・kabane・shikabanekammuri)

  • Related Keywords

    unit of length ruler brief letter small shaku foot compact distance measurement measuring scale

Sentences including 尺

  • Give him an inch and he will take a yard.

  • Man is the measure of all things.

  • Money is the measure of worth.

  • I not only gave him some advice, I also gave him a blowjob.

  • I want a map of Texas on a scale of 1 to 250000.

  • The calorie is an exact measure of the energy in food.

  • In my work, I sometimes simply determine an area with a tape measure.

  • As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.

  • Americans are said to regard the amount of money a man makes as a criterion of his ability.

  • Most Shakuhachi are made from bamboo, but recently some wooden ones have appeared.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

More kanji with the radical 尸 (shikabane・kabane・shikabanekammuri)

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