寸

See also 手

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) – a hand counting; compare 手, 九, 爪.

寸	寸
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

寸 (radical 41 寸+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 木戈 (DI), four-corner 4030₀)

1. An ancient length unit
2. inch
3. small, tiny
4. radical number 41

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/寸
• 付 村 討

Descendants

• す

See also

• 冠 壽 (寿) 闘
• 丈
• 尺
• 分

References

• KangXi: page 293, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7411
• Dae Jaweon: page 581, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 503, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5BF8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

寸 (Yale chyun3)

Romanization

• chyun
• tsun

Noun

寸 (traditional and simplified)

1. (Hong Kong) tsun, a traditional unit of length, legally defined as equal to 0.1 chek (尺) or 0.0371475 metres (米)
2. (slang, North American Cantonese) an inch in Imperial units or US units

See also

• 尺
• 分

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Hakka

Hanzi

寸 (POJ tshùn, Guangdong ts'un⁵, Hagfa Pinyim cun4)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

寸 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: すん (sun), そん (son)
• Kun: はかる (hakaru), とき (toki), き (ki)

Noun

寸 (hiragana すん, romaji sun)

1. sun (a Japanese length measurement equivalent to 10 bu (分) or approximately 3.03 cm)

Coordinate terms

• Last: 分
• Next: 尺

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Korean

Hanja

寸
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 촌 (revised: chon, McCune-Reischauer: ch'on, Yale: chon)

• Name (hangeul): 마디 (revised: madi, McCune-Reischauer: madi, Yale: mati)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

寸 (pinyin cùn (cun4), Wade-Giles ts'un⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

寸 (*tsuə̀n)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寸 (thốn, dón, són, thuỗn, xốn)