疋

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/疋

Glyph origin
– a foot 止 with a leg/thigh on top.

Definitions

 * 1) foot

Kanji

 * 1) counter for horses, mules, and small animals
 * 2) counter for rolls of cloth
 * 3) a measure of cloth
 * 4) foot

Etymology
From. Conflated in Japanese with 🇨🇬, both in meaning and in reading. The hichi reading evolved into hiki by association with, from the way that an animal's leash is pulled.

Counter

 * : counter for smaller animals

Hanja

 * 1) roll, bolt of cloth
 * 2) foot