糎
糎: centimeter (old kanji)
centimeter (old kanji)
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Kunセンチ・センチメートル
Old coined kanji for centimeter, read さんち in dictionaries and mostly seen in gun calibres; otherwise written センチ today.
Key words
糎さんちcentimeter (esp. gun calibre)
Example sentences
博物館には、口径三十糎の古い大砲が展示されている。
An old cannon with a thirty-centimeter bore is on display in the museum.
戦艦に積まれた主砲は、口径が四十糎もあったという。
The main guns mounted on the battleship are said to have had a forty-centimeter bore.
祖父は、昔の砲弾は直径が十五糎もあったと話してくれた。
My grandfather told me that the shells of the old days were as much as fifteen centimeters across.