秤 - balances, scales, steelyard

scales; weighing machine

two alternatives

oscillation of a heavenly body; libration

a water level

to weigh on a scale

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

torsion balance

Libra (constellation); the Scales

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

(balance) scales

beam balance; steelyard

spring balance; spring scale; pull tension gauge