Kanji1 / 4
尺 kanji
shaku, Japanese foot, measure, scale, rule
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
シャクセキ
Kun readings
さし
Words with 尺
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —九尺二間(tiny) house about nine feet wide and 12 feet deep
- —垂涎三尺avid desire; drooling over (something); watering at the mouth
- —長尺映画long film (movie)
- —又四郎尺Matashirō shaku (approx. 30.26 cm)
- —一人尺八autofellatio
- —尺骨動脈ulnar artery
- —三尺の秋水sharpened sword
- —三尺の童子mere child
- —尺を当てるto measure with a rule
- —評価の尺度evaluation measure
- —尺が伸びるto extend in length (esp. parts of television programs)
- —大霜降枝尺peppered moth (Biston betularia)
- —間尺に合わないdoes not pay; not worth (one's) while
- —国際原子力事象評価尺度International Nuclear Event Scale; INES
- —人間は万物の尺度であるman is the measure of all things
- —三尺去って師の影を踏まずa student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
- —三尺下がって師の影を踏まずa student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
- —短尺tanzaku; poem slip; poetry slip; long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); thin rectangle
- —矩尺carpenter's square (for checking angles); common shaku (unit of distance; approx. 30.3 cm)
- —陸尺palanquin bearer