character
ruler (straightedge) (Classifier: 把 m c; 支 m h mn; 桿/杆 m)
character, Hong-Kong
chek; Hong Kong foot, standardized as 0.371475 meters
character, Mainland-China
mainland chi; Chinese foot, standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ meter
character, Taiwan
Taiwanese foot, standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ meter and identical to the Japanese shaku
character
tape measure
character, informal
imperial foot
character
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))
尺 [-]
Jyutping
cek3
Pinyin
chǐ
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
a Chinese foot/one-third of a meter/a ruler/a tape-measure/one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine M: 支zhī [支] / 把bǎ [把]/a letter/one hundred
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
量詞
英制長度單位,等於十二吋,等於三分之一碼,折合約30.48厘米;符號係ft 或 ' English foot, feet
你高五呎十一吋。
你高五呎十一吋。
nei5 gou1 ng5 cek3 sap6 jat1 cyun3. Your height is 5 feet and 11 inches.
加以进了几回城,阿Q自然更自负,然而他又很鄙薄城里人,譬如用三尺三寸宽的木板做成的凳子,未庄人叫“长凳”,他也叫“长凳”,城里人却叫“条凳”,他想:这是错的,可笑!
加以進了幾回城,阿Q自然更自負,然而他又很鄙薄城裏人,譬如用三尺三寸寬的木板做成的凳子,未莊人叫“長凳”,他也叫“長凳”,城裏人卻叫“條凳”,他想:這是錯的,可笑!
jiā yǐ jìn le jǐ huí chéng , ā guì zì rán gèng zì fù , ránér tā yòu hěn bǐ bó chéng lǐ rén , pì rú yòng sān chǐ sān cùn kuān de mù bǎn zuò chéng de dèng zǐ , wèi zhuāng rén jiào “ cháng dèng ” , tā yě jiào “ cháng dèng ” , chéng lǐ rén què jiào “ tiáo dèng ” , tā xiǎng : zhè shì cuò de , kě xiào !
Moreover, after Ah Q had been to town several times, he naturally became even more conceited, although at the same time he had the greatest contempt for townspeople. For instance, a bench made of a wooden plank three feet by three inches the Weichuang villagers called a "long bench." Ah Q called it a "long bench" too; but the townspeople called it a "straight bench," and he thought, "This is wrong. How ridiculous!"