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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe Japanese foot, a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10 sun or ¹/₁₀ of a jō, now standardized as equal to ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter.
Borrowed from Japanese 尺 (shaku). Doublet of chi and chek.
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