寸

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 Descendants 1.1.2 References 1.2 See also 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 2.1.1 Romanizations 2.2 Noun 2.3 See also 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.2 Noun 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

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[edit] 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

[edit] Descendants

• す

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• 丈
• 尺
• 分

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

寸 (Yale chyun3)

[edit] Romanizations

• chyun
• tsun

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• 尺
• 分

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

寸 (grade 6 kanji)

[edit] Readings

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

[edit] Noun

寸 (hiragana すん, romaji sun)

1. sun (a Japanese length measurement equivalent to 10 bu (分) or approximately 3.03 cm)
   • Last: 分
   • Next: 尺

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[edit] Korean

[edit] 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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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

寸 (*tsuə̀n)