shaku

Etymology

A romanization of Japanese 尺 (shaku). Doublet of chi and chek.

noun

  1. The 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.

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