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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. short
4. small, tiny
5. Kangxi radical #41, ⼨ ‎(“inch”).

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

Chinese

Pronunciation

Noun

寸

1. (Hong Kong) tsun, a traditional unit of length, legally defined as equal to 0.1 chek (尺 (chǐ)) or 0.0371475 metres (米 (mǐ))
2. (slang, North American Cantonese) an inch in Imperial units or US units
3. (Taiwan) a unit of length, approximately 3 cm

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #202”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. measurement

Readings

• Goon: すん (sun)
• Kan’on: そん (son) (non-Jōyō reading)
• 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

• Previous: 分
• Next: 尺

Korean

Hanja

寸 • ‎(chon)
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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Vietnamese

Han character

寸 (thốn, dón, són, thuỗn, xốn)

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