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chǐ ㄔˇ (1): 量词:长度单位,十寸为尺。 Measure word: unit of length equal to ten cun.
《·》: | 倍:二尺与尺但去一。 | When they are 'two', measured foot and measured foot both depart from one starting-point, which is being nowhere the same. | 《·》: | 曾子曰:“可以托六尺之孤,可以寄百里之命,临大节而不可夺也。” | The philosopher Zeng said, "Suppose that there is an individual who can be entrusted with the charge of a young orphan prince, and can be commissioned with authority over a state of a hundred li, and whom no emergency however great can drive from his principles" | 《·》: | 虽使五尺之童适市,莫之或欺。 | If a boy of five cubits were sent to the market, no one would impose on him. | 《·》: | 庄周游乎雕陵之樊,睹一异鹊自南方来者,翼广七尺,目大运寸,感周之颡而集于栗林。 | As Zhuang Zhou was rambling in the park of Diao-ling he saw a strange bird which came from the south. Its wings were seven cubits in width, and its eyes were large, an inch in circuit. It touched the forehead of Zhou as it passed him, and lighted in a grove of chestnut trees. | 《·》: | 于是封之,崇四尺。 | On this, he (resolved to) raise a mound (over the grave) four feet high. | 《·》: | 夫龙之为虫也,柔可狎而骑也,然其喉下有逆鳞径尺,若人有婴之者则必杀人。 |
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chǐ ㄔˇ (2): 尺子,量长度的器具。 Ruler, tool for measuring length.
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chǐ ㄔˇ (3): 中医切脉部位名称之一。手掌后桡骨处下为寸,寸下一指处为关,关下一指处为尺。 Type of pulse-reading point in Chinese medicine.
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