The kanji 尺: meaning, readings and stroke order
尺
- Meaning
- ruler, measure
- On reading
- シャク shaku
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 尸 corpse
- Level
- Level 6 · grade 6
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- thước, thước đo (xích)
- Japanese
- むかしの ながさの たんい。ものさし。
- Korean
- 자, 잣대 (척)
- Chinese
- 尺、尺度
Readings, words and example sentences
シャク shaku · on reading · less common
尺度
way to measure, standard
考える 尺度が ちがいます。
We use different standards to think about it.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.