秤 - balances, scales, steelyard

scales; weighing machine

(sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole

large beam balance; weighbeam

automatic scales

carrying pole; shoulder pole; milkmaid's yoke

to weigh (one thing against another); to compare (the relative merits of two options); to weigh (something) on scales

to try to have it both ways; to play a double game; to have two strings to one's bow

analytical balance; direct reading balance

pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making)

Libra (constellation); the Scales

two alternatives

oscillation of a heavenly body; libration