a Chinese foot / one-third of a meter / a ruler / a tape-measure / one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine / CL:支[zhi1],把[ba3]
釆
=
丿
+
米
:
Mnemonic symbol: a sampling tool. Brunhilde (bi) wants to distinguish a huge banana (丿) from a sack of rice (米) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), so she sticks her sampling tool (釆) into each of them and takes a small sample.