尺
chǐchě HSK4

traditional Chinese unit of length ~ 1 foot

尺 chǐ frequency
Chinese foot measure word
a traditional unit of length equal to one-third of a meter

这块布长三尺。

zhè kuài bù cháng sān chǐ.

This piece of cloth is three chi long.

ruler noun
a tool used for measuring length, such as a ruler or tape-measure

他用尺量了量桌子的宽度。

tā yòng chǐ liáng le liáng zhuō​zi de kuān​dù.

He measured the width of the table with a ruler.

acupoint noun
one of the three positions on the wrist (cun, guan, and chi) used for pulse diagnosis in Chinese medicine

中医切脉讲究寸、关、尺三个部位。

zhōng​yī qiè​mài jiǎng​jiu cùn, guān, chǐ sān gè bù​wèi.

Traditional Chinese pulse diagnosis focuses on three positions: Cun, Guan, and Chi.

尺 chě
musical note measure word
one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation

他看着手中的工尺谱，轻声唱出了尺这个音。

tā kàn zhe shǒu zhōng de gōng​chě​pǔ, qīng​shēng chàng​chū le chě zhè​ge yīn.

He looked at the Gongche notation in his hand and softly sang the note 'chi'.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,474th most common 74.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,331st most common 56.6 per million appears in 23% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
18.5 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
21.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+5C3A

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)