寸

See also: 手

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) – a position on the forearm where the pulse can be palpated by compressing the radial artery. It is called 寸口 in modern Chinese and the meaning of a unit of measurement is derived from the distance between the wrist and this position. Compare 手, 九, 爪.

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		寸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cùn (cun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): tshùn
• Min Nan (POJ): tshùn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ts'un⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuenn
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən⁵¹/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun³
    • Yale: chyun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyːn³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tshùn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /tshun¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tshùn
    • Tâi-lô: tshùn
    • IPA (Taipei): /tsʔun¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tsʔun²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (寸, reconstructed)
Character (寸), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 清 (14) Final: 魂 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 倉困切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sʰuənH/	/t͡sʰuənH/	/t͡sʰuənH/	/t͡sʰuonH/	/t͡sʰwənH/	/t͡sʰuənH/	/t͡sʰuənH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (寸, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
寸								cùn								‹ tshwonH ›								/*[tsʰ]ˤu[n]-s/								thumb; inch
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
寸					1913					寸					文					2					寸					/*sʰuːns/

Noun

寸

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

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

寸

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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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

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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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