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糎: centimeter (old kanji)

centimeter (old kanji)
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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

An old cannon with a thirty-centimeter bore is on display in the museum.

The main guns mounted on the battleship are said to have had a forty-centimeter bore.

My grandfather told me that the shells of the old days were as much as fifteen centimeters across.

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