尺 chǐ, chě — ruler; rule
尺
Level 1 · Common HSK 5 #175
chǐ chi3
Detailed explanation
noun
- (指事。小篆，从尸，从乙。“尸”象人卧的形象。“乙”是个标识，周制寸、咫、尺、仞、寻、常诸度，皆以人之体为法。本义:十寸)
- chi， a unit of length (3chi=1 meter)
- 按，古代长度单位。各代制度不一。如:尺一(尺一板、尺一书、尺一牍、尺一诏等都是指诏书。古时诏板长一尺一寸，故称天子的诏书为“尺一”。“尺一”又指书信)
- chi pulse
- ruler;rule
- laws and institutions
- ruler-like things
- letters
adjective
- tiny e.g 尺土 · 尺地 · 尺铁
chě che3
Basic definition
- noun a musical note in gongche notation (≈ solfege re) e.g 尺
Detailed explanation
- noun a note of the scale in gongchepu ，corresponding to 2 in numbered musical notation
Related words
- 尺度 measure; yardstick; scale
- 尺寸 measurement; size; dimensions
- 公尺 a meter; the metric chi
- 标尺 surveyor's rod/staff/staff gauge/rear sight
- 英尺 foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m.)
- 近在咫尺 close at hand; within a stone's throw
- 尺子 ruler
- 比例尺 scale/architect's scale/engineer's scale
- 咫尺 a short distance; very near
- 得寸进尺 to be insatiable; to gain an inch and ask for a foot
- 百尺竿头 at the top of the pole; at a great height of achievement
- 垂涎三尺 to drool with greed; to crave intensely
- 进尺 footage; advance (in drilling or mining, measured in meters)
- 尺码 size; fitting
- 丁字尺 T-square/set square (carpenter's tool)
- 戒尺 the teacher's ruler (old corporal punishment)
- 皮尺 tape measure
- 咫尺天涯 physically near yet worlds apart
- 尺牍 letters; correspondence
- 曲尺 a carpenter's square