尺
chě
#1,472 most
frequent character
one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
尺 is a whole picture, but we do not know what it first showed. Its first meaning was ten cùn. Read chǐ, it grew to mean a measuring ruler; read chě, it is a note in the old Chinese scale.
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