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呎

chǐ

Character

What 呎 means

1. foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m)
2. old form of modern {英尺|yīng chǐ}

Example sentences

• 他差不多有六呎高。
  He is almost six feet tall.
• 汤姆差不多有六呎高。
  Tom is almost six feet tall.
• 我差不多五呎十一吋。
  I'm almost five eleven.
• 游泳池长度是 25 呎。
  The swimming pool is 25 feet long.
• 我们的脑袋都不及他的肩膀吧，他的身高肯定不矮于六呎半。
  I don't think any of our heads would have come up to his shoulder, and I am sure that he could not have measured less than six and a half feet.

Characters built on 尺

These share the phonetic component 尺 (chǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 迟chílate; delayed; slow
• 咫zhǐ8 in. length unit of Zhou dynasty

Characters that look like 呎

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 武wǔmartial; military
• 呢ne(sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context…
• 凭píngto lean against; to rely on; on the basis of

Sounds the same

Read chǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 尺a Chinese foot; one-third of a meter; a ruler
• 齿(bound form) tooth; (bound form) to regard as worthy of mention
• 耻(bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
• 侈extravagant; wasteful; exaggerating
• 豉salted fermented beans
• 褫to strip; to deprive of; to discharge
• 扡drag along
• 欼drink
• 誃to separate
• 奓old variant of 侈