Spanne

Japanese: Spanne
Spanne

... The third category in (i) would be the distance between the tips of the thumb and middle finger (or little finger) when they are spread apart. By repeatedly spreading your fingers and placing them on an object, you can infer the size of that object, so the idea of ​​using this distance as a standard for choosing measurements was taken up in various regions, giving rise to units such as the English span, the German spanne, the Chinese shaku, and the Japanese ata. The origin of the character shaku as a pictograph represents exactly this action. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Spanne" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… (イ)に属する系列の第3には,〈親指と中指(または小指)とを広げたときの指先の間隔〉をあげるべきであろう。指を広げて事物にあてがうという動作を反覆すればその事物の寸法を推測することができるので,この間隔を基準に選ぶという考えは諸地域でとり上げられ,イギリスのスパンspan,ドイツのシュパンネSpanne,中国の尺,日本のあたなどの単位を生み出した。尺という字の象形文字としての起源は,まさしくこの動作を表している。…

※「Spanne」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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