尺 (chǐ)
Ruler; measure of length (chi)
How 尺 is written
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 尸 — corpse
- Traditional
- 尺
- Simplified
- 尺 (unchanged)
Components
- 尸 corpse
- ㇏ N/A
尺 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- chě
- one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]
- chǐ
- a Chinese foot; one-third of a meter; a ruler; a tape-measure
Common words using 尺
- 咫尺 zhǐchǐ
- very close; very near
- 公尺 gōngchǐ
- meter
- 尺子 chǐzi
- rule; ruler (measuring instrument); CL:把[ba3]
- 尺寸 chǐcun
- size; dimension; measurement
- 尺度 chǐdù
- scale; yardstick
- 尺碼 chǐmǎ
- size; fitting (of apparel)
- 英尺 yīngchǐ
- foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m)
- 卡尺 kǎchǐ
- calipers
- 卷尺 juǎnchǐ
- tape measure; tape rule; CL:把[ba3]
- 垂涎三尺 chuíxiánsānchǐ
- to drool (over) (idiom); to yearn for; to covet
- 尺蠖 chǐhuò
- looper caterpillar, larva of moth in family Geometridae; inch worm
- 平方英尺 píngfāngyīngchǐ
- square foot (unit of area equal to 0.093 square meters)
尺 in a sentence
請借我一把尺，我要畫線。
Qǐng jiè wǒ yī bǎ chǐ, wǒ yào huà xiàn.
“Please lend me a ruler; I need to draw a line.”
How common is 尺?
尺 is the 1,472nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94.4% of all running text.
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