尺
Ancient forms
3 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
- a Chinese foot
- one-third of a meter
- a ruler
- a tape-measure
- one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine
- one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺谱
Example sentences
- My gloves are size medium.
HSK words with 尺
More words with 尺
- 市尺 shìchǐ chi (Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ meter)
- 公尺 gōngchǐ meter (unit of length)
- 角尺 jiǎochǐ set square (tool to measure right angles)
- 卡尺 kǎchǐ calipers
- 皮尺 píchǐ tape measure
- 油尺 yóuchǐ dipstick
- 米尺 mǐchǐ meter stick; metric ruler one meter in length
- 尺八 chǐbā shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute)
- 尺素 chǐsù (literary) a one-foot-long piece of white silk, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message