| 尺 |
|---|
chǐ ㄔˇ (1): 量詞：長度單位，十寸為尺。 Measure word: unit of length equal to ten cun.
| 《·》: | 倍：二尺與尺但去一。 | | When they are 'two', measured foot and measured foot both depart from one starting-point, which is being nowhere the same. | | 《·》: | 曾子曰：「可以託六尺之孤，可以寄百里之命，臨大節而不可奪也。」 | | 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" | | 《·》: | 雖使五尺之童適市，莫之或欺。 | | If a boy of five cubits were sent to the market, no one would impose on him. | | 《·》: | 莊周遊乎雕陵之樊，睹一異鵲自南方來者，翼廣七尺，目大運寸，感周之顙而集於栗林。 | | 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. | | 《·》: | 於是封之，崇四尺。 | | On this, he (resolved to) raise a mound (over the grave) four feet high. | | 《·》: | 夫龍之為蟲也，柔可狎而騎也，然其喉下有逆鱗徑尺，若人有嬰之者則必殺人。 |
|
chǐ ㄔˇ (2): 尺子，量長度的器具。 Ruler, tool for measuring length.
|
chǐ ㄔˇ (3): 中醫切脈部位名稱之一。手掌後橈骨處下為寸，寸下一指處為關，關下一指處為尺。 Type of pulse-reading point in Chinese medicine.
|
