Wiktionary

尺

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

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 

Han character edit

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

Derived characters edit

References edit

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

Chinese edit

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 尺
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (尺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
尺 *tʰjaɡ
蚇 *tʰjaɡ

Etymology 1 edit

trad. 尺
simp. # 尺
 
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Pronunciation edit

Note: 'chí' pronunciation only used in 尺寸 (chícun).
Note:
  • chióh - vernacular;
  • chék - literary.
Note:
  • chhioh - vernacular;
  • chhek/chhiak - literary.
Note:
  • cioh4 - Shantou;
  • ciêh4 - Chaozhou.
  • 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 (Hokkien) /t͡sʰik̚³²/
/t͡sʰioʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sʰuɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sʰiɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡sʰioʔ²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /sek̚³/
/sio⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 尺
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 清 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 昌石切
Baxter tsyhek
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cik1
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 edit

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
    Synonyms: 英尺 (yīngchǐ), 呎 (chǐ)
  6. ruler (straightedge) (Classifier: 把 m c; 支 m h mn; 桿／杆 m)
  7. tape measure
Synonyms edit
  • (ruler):
Dialectal synonyms of 尺子 (“ruler”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 尺, 尺子
Mandarin Beijing 尺
Taiwan 尺
Harbin 尺
Yantai (Muping) 尺
Luoyang 尺子
Wanrong 尺
Xi'an 尺子
Lanzhou 尺子
Xining 尺子
Ürümqi 尺子
Wuhan 尺
Chengdu 尺, 尺子, 尺片兒
Guiyang 尺子
Liuzhou 尺子
Xuzhou 尺子
Nanjing 尺
Singapore 尺
Cantonese Guangzhou 間尺
Hong Kong 間尺, 尺
Taishan 間尺, 尺
Dongguan 尺
Gan Nanchang 尺
Lichuan 尺
Pingxiang 尺
Hakka Meixian 尺
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 尺
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 尺
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 尺
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 尺
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 尺
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 尺
Huizhou Jixi 尺
Jin Taiyuan 尺子
Xinzhou 尺子
Northern Min Jian'ou 尺
Eastern Min Fuzhou 尺
Southern Min Jinjiang 格尺
Shantou 尺
Leizhou 尺
Haikou 尺
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 尺
Wu Shanghai (Chongming) 尺
Danyang 尺
Hangzhou 尺
Ningbo 尺
Wenzhou 尺
Jinhua 尺
Xiang Changsha 尺
See also edit

Compounds edit

Descendants edit
  • → English: chi, chek
  • → Zhuang: cik

Etymology 2 edit

trad. 尺
simp. # 尺

Pronunciation edit

Definitions edit

尺

  1. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note re (2).
  2. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note re (2).

Compounds edit

Derived terms edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

尺

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. shaku (measurement)
  2. measure

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Derived terms

Etymology 1 edit

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

From Middle Chinese 尺 (MC tsyhek).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

尺(しゃく) or 尺(せき) • (shaku or 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
    • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 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 [...]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • c. 1177-1188: Iroha Jiruishō (volume 9, page 55)
      尺 シャク　十寸為尺
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    • 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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. the "whale shaku", a variant of the shaku used in measuring cloth equal to 25⁄66 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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  5. (zoology) the inchworm
Idioms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
尺
たかばかり
Grade: 6
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
竹量
鷹秤

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

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ta̠ka̠ba̠ka̠ɾʲi]

Noun edit

尺(たかばかり) • (takabakari) 

  1. a bamboo measure
    • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 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
      Rule The Record of Emperor Wei Wu's Various Possessions speaks of an ivory rule, fanqie shaku. The Establishment of Distinct Colours says a rule is a bamboo measure, takapakari.

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja edit

尺 (eum 척 (cheok))

  1. Hanja form? of 자 (“Korean foot (30.3cm)”).
  2. Hanja form? of 자 (“ruler; straightedge”).

Compounds edit

Compounds

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

尺: Hán Việt readings: xích[1][2][3][4]
尺: Nôm readings: xệch[2][5][4], xách[1][5], xế[2][5], xích[3][6], sệch[2], xạch[2], xịch[5]

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References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Trần (2004).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bonet (1899).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Génibrel (1898).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Hồ (1976).
  6. ^ Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).
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