寸

See also: 手 and 吋
寸 U+5BF8, 寸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BF8
← 寷
[U+5BF7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 对 →
[U+5BF9]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #41, ⼨.

Derived characters

Descendants

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
simp. and trad.
 寸

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 寸
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (寸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
村 *sʰuːn
忖 *sʰuːnʔ
刌 *sʰuːnʔ
寸 *sʰuːns

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 又, 手, 九, 爪.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation
Note:
  • chhùn - literary;
  • chhǹg - vernacular.
Rime
Character 寸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 倉困切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰuənH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰuonH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰwənH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰuənH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰuənH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰuənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cùn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 寸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cùn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshwonH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]ˁu[n]-s/
English 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 寸
Reading # 1/1
No. 1913
Phonetic
component		 寸
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 寸
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰuːns/

Definitions

寸

  1. (units of measure) A cun or Chinese inch, a traditional unit of length of about 3 cm.
    1. (Mainland China) Short for 市寸.
    2. (Hong Kong) Legally defined as the tsun of 3.71475 cm.
  2. (informal) Short for 英寸 (yīngcùn, “inch”).
  3. (figuratively) very short or little
  4. (traditional Chinese medicine) cunkou pulse; radial artery pulse at the wrist
  5. (Mandarin, colloquial) coincidental; unbelievable; opportune
  6. A surname​.
Coordinate terms
  • 分 (fēn, “1⁄10 cun”)
  • 尺 (chǐ, “10 cun”)

Compounds
Derived terms from 寸

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 寸 – see 忖 (“guess, suppose, conjecture”).
(This character, 寸, is a variant form of 忖.)

Japanese

Kanji
寸

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. measurement

Readings

Noun

寸 (hiragana すん, rōmaji sun)

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

Coordinate terms

Korean

Hanja

Pronunciation 1

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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Pronunciation 2

寸 • (chi) (hangeul 치, revised chi, McCune–Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)

  1. Hanja form? of 치 (“a chi, a Korean inch”).

Pronunciation 3

寸 • (don) (hangeul 돈, revised don, McCune–Reischauer ton, Yale tōn)

  1. Hanja form? of 돈 (“a don, a small Korean unit of weight”).

Vietnamese

Han character

寸 (thốn, dón, són, thuỗn, xốn)

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