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shaku, Japanese foot, measure, scale, rule

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

シャクセキ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

さし

Stroke Order

4 / 4

Information

Grade:6

Strokes:4

JLPT:N1

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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These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

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choose, select, elect, prefer

swamp, marsh, brilliance, grace

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