尺

Definitions

 * 1) chi; Chinese foot a traditional Chinese unit of distance based on the human forearm and equal to 10 cun or 1/10 zhang
 * 2)  mainland chi; Chinese foot, standardized in 1984 as 1/3 meter
 * 3)  Taiwanese foot, standardized as 10/33 meter and identical to the Japanese shaku
 * 4)  chek; Hong Kong foot, standardized as 0.371475 meters
 * 5)  imperial foot
 * 6) ruler straightedge
 * 7) tape measure
 * 1) tape measure

Kanji

 * 1) shaku (measurement)
 * 2) measure

Compounds

 * : one shaku and one sun
 * : one shaku and eight sun; shakuhachi
 * : in ancient China, the paperboard on which the imperial decree was written, or the imperial decree

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) the shaku, "metal shaku", or Japanese foot: a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10 sun  or $1/10$ jō, standardized as $10/33$ of a meter
 * 2) * c. 1177-1188: Iroha Jiruishō (volume 9, page 55)
 * 3) the "whale shaku", a variant of the shaku used in measuring cloth equal to $25/66$ of a meter
 * 4) length
 * 5)  The geometer moth
 * 6)  the inchworm
 * 1) length
 * 2)  The geometer moth
 * 3)  the inchworm
 * 1)  the inchworm
 * 1)  the inchworm

Etymology 2
Compound of bound, voiced due to compounding.

Noun

 * 1) a bamboo measure