Etymology

shaku

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Japanese 尺
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from尺
  2. English todayshaku

Borrowed from Japanese 尺 (shaku). Doublet of chi and chek.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.