尺
Japanese foot, measure, rule, scale, shaku
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Stroke Order
4 / 4
Information
Grade:6
Strokes:4
JLPT:1
Frequency:1940
Vocabulary
シャク
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尺度 | シャクド | gauge; standard; measure; criterion; index; length; size; (measuring) rule; scale |
| 尺八 | シャクハチ | shakuhachi; end-blown fippleless bamboo flute; blow job; fellatio |
| 縮尺 | シュクシャク | reduced scale; scaling down |
| 準尺 | ジュンシャク | surveyor's leveling pole (levelling) |
| 副尺 | フクシャク | vernier |
セキ
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咫尺 | シセキ | very short distance |
| 尺寸 | セキスン | (something) tiny; trifle |
| 尺地 | セキチ | small plot of land |
| 百尺竿頭 | ヒャクセキカントウ | the highest state of one's enlightenment; the highest level one can attain |
| 尺牘 | セキトク | letter; epistle |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巻尺 | まきじゃく | tape measure |
| 三尺 | さんじゃく | 3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle |
| 尺 | しゃく | shaku (unit of distance approximately equal to 30.3 cm); rule; measure; scale; length |
| 短尺 | たんざく | tanzaku; poem slip; poetry slip; long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); thin rectangle |
| 一尺 | いっしゃく | approx. 30 cm |
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