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Kanji Details

尺

  • Strokes: 4
  • IDC: 囗
  • Frequency: 1658

Readings

  • On'yomi: シャク(呉)、セキ(漢)
  • Kun'yomi: ものさし、さし、わず（か）
  • Nanori: かね、さか、さく
  • English: shaku; Japanese foot; measure; scale; rule

Radical: 尸 ( しかばね・かばね・かばねだれ ), corpse


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Example sentences using 尺 ( 2 found )

寸(すん)を与(あた)えれば尺(しゃく)を望(のぞ)む。
Give him an inch and he will take a yard.
情報(じょうほう)検索(けんさく)の効率(こうりつ)を測(はか)る尺度(しゃくど)として、再現(さいげん)率(りつ)と適合(てきごう)率(りつ)というものがある。
As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.

Other usages of 尺

6 Proverbs