Chinese foot
Meanings
noun
- A chi, a traditional Chinese unit of distance based on the human forearm, now standardized variously as (Mainland China) ¹/₃ or (Taiwan) ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter.
Word forms
Etymology
From its rough resemblance to the English foot.
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