咫

咫 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸人口金 (SORC), four-corner 7680₈, composition ⿺尺只)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 186, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3542
• Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 624, character 1
• Unihan data for U+54AB

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kljeʔ): semantic 尺 (“ruler; measuring stick”) + phonetic 只 (OC *klje, *kljeʔ)

咫

1. unit of measurement during the Zhou dynasty, equal to eight cun/tsun (寸)

   • 楛矢貫之，石砮其長尺有咫。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     楛矢贯之，石砮其长尺有咫。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Guoyu, circa 4^th century BCE

     Hù shǐ guàn zhī, shí nú qí cháng chǐ yǒu zhǐ. [Pinyin]

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   • 對曰：「天威不違顏咫尺，小白，余敢貪天子之命無下拜？ [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     对曰：「天威不违颜咫尺，小白，余敢贪天子之命无下拜？ [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Duì yuē: “Tiānwēi bù wéi yán zhǐchǐ, xiǎobái, yú gǎn tān tiānzǐ zhī mìng wú xiàbài? [Pinyin]

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2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) few; little

   Synonym: 少

   • 王曰：「是知天咫，安知民則？是言誕也。」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     王曰：「是知天咫，安知民则？是言诞也。」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Guoyu, circa 4^th century BCE

     Wáng yuē: “Shì zhī tiān zhǐ, ān zhī mín zé? Shì yán dàn yě.” [Pinyin]

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3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) short

   Synonym: 短 (duǎn)

   • 北首燕路，而後遣辯士奉咫尺之書，暴其所長於燕，燕必不敢不聽從。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     北首燕路，而后遣辩士奉咫尺之书，暴其所长于燕，燕必不敢不听从。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Běi shǒu yàn lù, ér hòu qiǎn biàn shì fèng zhǐchǐ zhī shū, bào qí suǒ cháng yú yàn, yàn bì bùgǎn bù tīngcóng. [Pinyin]

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• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “咫”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 309.
• “咫”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[3], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: し (shi)^{←し (si, historical)}
• Kan-on: し (shi)^{←し (si, historical)}
• Kun: あた (ata, 咫)、た (ta, 咫)

From Old Japanese. First cited to the Kojiki of 712, with the phonetic spelling 阿多 (ata).^[1][2]

Possibly derived from verb 当つ (atu, “to place one thing against another; to touch, to come into contact”, modern verb pair 当てる (ateru, transitive), 当たる (ataru, intransitive)), from the sense of placing one's hand against something to measure it.

• IPA^(key): [a̠ta̠]

咫(あた) • (ata) 

1. [from 712] (historical, archaic) roughly corresponds to the hand (traditional unit of length; in Japan, described as originally the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger (or possibly index finger) with the hand outstretched,^[1][2][3][4] often defined as eight 寸 (sun, “traditional inch”) or roughly 18cm^[2])

From Old Japanese. Appears to be a shortening of ata.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ta̠]

咫(た) • (ta) 

1. (historical, archaic) roughly corresponds to the hand (traditional unit of length; in Japan, described as originally the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger (or possibly index finger) with the hand outstretched,^[1][2][3][4] often defined as eight 寸 (sun, “traditional inch”) or roughly 18cm^[2])

This shortened reading ta seems to only appear in compounds.

• 八咫鏡 (Yata no Kagami, “The Eight-Ata Mirror”, one of the Imperial Regalia of Japan)
• 八咫烏 (Yata-garasu, “The Eight-Ata Crow”, an important figure in Shinto)

From Middle Chinese 咫 (MC tsyeX).

• IPA^(key): [ɕi]

咫(し) • (shi) 

1. (historical, archaic) roughly corresponds to the hand (traditional unit of length; in Japan, described as originally the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger (or possibly index finger) with the hand outstretched,^[1][2][3][4] often defined as eight 寸 (sun, “traditional inch”) or roughly 18cm^[2])

Only appears in compounds.

• 咫尺 (shiseki, “nearby; a short distance”)

From Middle Chinese 咫 (MC tsyeX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕi]
• Phonetic hangul: [지]

Wikisource

咫 (eumhun 여덟 치 지 (yeodeol chi ji))

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• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 咫

咫: Hán Việt readings: chỉ^[1]
咫: Nôm readings: chỉ^[1]

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