呎

See also: 尺

呎	U+544E, 呎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-544E

← 呍
[U+544D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

呏 →
[U+544F]

Translingual

Han character

呎 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口尸人 (RSO), four-corner 6708₇, composition ⿰口尺)

Derived characters

𤋚

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 181, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3423
Dae Jaweon: page 399, character 21
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 596, character 3
Unihan data for U+544E

Chinese

trad.		呎
simp. ^#		呎

Etymology

From 尺 (foot)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chǐ (chi³)

(Zhuyin): ㄔˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cek³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhek

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄔˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chǐh
  - Wade–Giles: chʻih³
  - Yale: chř
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyy
  - Palladius: чи (či)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: cek³
  - Yale: chek
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsek⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: cég³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛːk̚³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhek
  - Tâi-lô: tshik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zheg
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiɪk̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/

Definitions

呎

(dated in Mainland China and Taiwan, still used in Hong Kong) synonym of 英尺 (yīngchǐ, “foot”)
(Hong Kong) square foot
呢個單位大約五百呎。 [Cantonese, trad.]
呢个单位大约五百呎。 [Cantonese, simp.]
nei¹ go³ daan¹ wai^6-2 daai⁶ joek³ ng⁵ baak³ cek³. [Jyutping]
This flat is around 500 sq. ft. in size.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 平方英尺 (“square foot”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		平方英尺
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	平方英尺
Cantonese	Hong Kong	平方呎, 方呎, 呎

Compounds

呎燭光 / 呎烛光
呎磅
平方呎 (píngfāngchǐ)
方呎 (fāngchǐ)
板呎
立方呎

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00519

Japanese

Kanji

呎

(Hyōgai kanji)

foot

Readings

Kan’yō-on: しゃく (shaku)
Kun: フィート (fīto, 呎)

Korean

Hanja

呎 (eum 척 (cheok))

foot

Vietnamese

Han character

呎: Hán Nôm readings: xích, xếch

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