Entry
  1. Noun

    small amount of silk (i.e. only one foot of cloth)

  2. unimportant painting; trivial work of art

Also written 尺けん【せっけん】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

shaku, Japanese foot, measure, scale, rule

Kun
さし
On
シャクセキ
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 6
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1940 of 2500
Radical
corpse
WaniKani
Level 47

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Dictionary and index codes (31)
CodeReference
4-4-1, 3-3-1SKIP code
3r1.1The Kanji Dictionary
7780.7Four corner code
3762deroo
5c3aUnicode hex code
1-28-60JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1377Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1404New Nelson (John Haig)
3440New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4248Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2146Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2896Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1070Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1151Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1842A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
96Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1781Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
7632Morohashi
884A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1895Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2071Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1227Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
895henshall3
830Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
762Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
521Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1079Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
chi3, che3Pinyin reading
cheogKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
47WaniKani level