chǐ dú

Traditional: 尺牘

尺牍 (chǐ dú) is a Chinese word meaning “(literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message”.

Meanings

  1. 1(literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message

Characters in 尺牍

尺chě · one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]牍dú · documents

Related words

英尺foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m)尺one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]尺a Chinese foot尺寸size; dimensions; measurements (esp. of clothes)尺码size得寸进尺lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains近在咫尺(idiom) very close; almost within reach; close at hand公尺(Tw) meter (unit of length)尺度scale尺骨ulna (anatomy)咫尺(literary) very close; very near卷尺tape measure (usu. retractable)

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