The Japanese foot, a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10 sun or ¹/₁₀ of a jō, now standardized as equal to ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter.

plural of shaku

The personification of Dvapara Yuga, the brother of Gandhari in the Mahabharata.

A surname from Arabic. / A male given name from Arabic.

plural of Shakur

(music) A Japanese flute which is tuned to a pentatonic scale and is end-blown like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute.

plural of shakuhachi

A billon of gold and copper that can be treated to form a dark indigo patina resembling lacquer.