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尺
Mandarin · pinyin chě#
Meanings · chě
- one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜 gōng chě pǔ
Mandarin · pinyin chǐ#
Meanings · chǐ
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- 尺
- chǐ · Chinese measure approx. 'foot'
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3 · che3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ce2 · cek3
Cantonese word readings for 尺. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- chi; Chinese foot (a traditional Chinese unit of distance based on the human forearm and equal to 10 cun (寸) or ¹/₁₀ zhang (丈))
- (Mainland China) mainland chi; Chinese foot, standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ meter
- (Taiwan) Taiwanese foot, standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ meter and identical to the Japanese shaku
- (Hong Kong) chek; Hong Kong foot, standardized as 0.371475 meters
- (informal) imperial foot
- ruler (straightedge) (Classifier: 把 m c; 支 m h mn; 桿／杆 m)
- tape measure
character · Etymology 2
- (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note re (2).
- (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note re (2).
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