咫 jiǎn

jiǎn noun an eight inch unit of length
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the Zhou dynasty

Contained in

• 近在咫尺 to be almost within reach; to be close at hand
• 咫尺 very close
• 咫尺天涯 so close, yet worlds apart

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 4 Xin Shu 新書 — count: 5
• Scroll 5 Xin Shu 新書 — count: 4
• 《尺部》 Chǐ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 3
• 卷十八 辨物 Chapter 18: Distinguishes Things Garden of Stories 說苑 — count: 2
• 卷二十七下之上 五行志 Volume 27d: Treatise on the Five Elements 4 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 2
• 卷二十一　趙四 Chapter 21: Zhao IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 2
• 《孔子世家》 House of Confucius Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 2
• 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
• 魯語下 Discourses of Lu II Guoyu 國語 — count: 2
• 卷七　秦五 Chapter 7: Qin V Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 2

Collocations

• 曰咫 (曰咫) 八寸曰咫 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十七 班梁列傳 Volume 47: Biographies of Ban, Liang — count: 4
• 薄咫 (薄咫) 墻薄咫亟壞 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 5 — count: 4
• 咫步 (咫步) 猶人之行咫步也 — Liezi 列子, 卷第七 楊朱篇 Chapter 7: Yang Zhu — count: 3