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尺 (chǐ): meaning and stroke order

尺 (chǐ) means a Chinese foot, one-third of a meter, a ruler, a tape-measure.

尺

Simplified
尺
Traditional
尺 (same form)
Pinyin
chǐ · chě

Stroke order of 尺

尺

  • 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
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 尺

  1. chǐ
    • a Chinese foot
    • one-third of a meter
    • a ruler
    • a tape-measure
    • one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine
    • CL:支[zhi1],把[ba3]
  2. chě
    • one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]

Radical and structure

尺
Radical 尸 (Kangxi radical 44) · 4 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

尺 in our stories

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  • 袁守诚掐指一算：“明天辰时布云，巳时打雷，午时下雨，未时雨停，共三尺三寸零四十八点。”

    Yuán Shǒuchéng qiā zhǐ yí suàn míngtiān chénshí bù yún sìshí dǎléi wǔshí xiàyǔ wèishí yǔ tíng gòng sān chǐ sān cùn líng sìshíbā diǎn

    Yuan Shoucheng counted on his fingers: "Tomorrow clouds gather at the hour of the Dragon, thunder at the Snake, rain at the Horse, stopping at the Goat: three feet, three inches and forty-eight drops in all."

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 他想起李白的诗：黄河三尺鲤，本在孟津居；点额不成龙，归来伴凡鱼。连李白这样的人，也把自己比作一条没有跳过龙门的鱼。

    tā xiǎngqǐ Lǐ Bái de shī Huáng Hé sān chǐ lǐ běn zài Mèngjīn jū diǎn é bù chéng lóng guīlái bàn fán yú lián Lǐ Bái zhèyàng de rén yě bǎ zìjǐ bǐzuò yì tiáo méiyǒu tiào guò Lóngmén de yú

    He recalled lines by Li Bai: "A three-foot carp of the Yellow River once lived at Mengjin; its forehead marked, it did not become a dragon, and came home to swim with common fish." Even a man like Li Bai had compared himself to a carp that failed to leap the gate.

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 尺

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).