Chinese foot

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English

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Etymology

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From its rough resemblance to the English foot.

Noun

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Chinese foot (plural Chinese feet)

  1. 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.
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