Japanese foot

English

Etymology

From its rough similarity to the English foot measurement.

Noun

Japanese foot (plural Japanese feet)

  1. A shaku, a traditional Japanese unit of distance based on the human forearm, now standardized as 10⁄33 of a meter.
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