| 寸 | |
|---|---|
Radical 41 (U+2F28)
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| 寸 (U+5BF8) "thumb, inch" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | cùn |
| Bopomofo: | ㄘㄨㄣˋ |
| Wade–Giles: | ts'un4 |
| Cantonese Yale: | chyun |
| Jyutping: | cyun3 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | chhùn |
| Japanese Kana: | スン sun / ソン son (on'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 촌 chon |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 寸字旁 cùnzìpáng |
| Japanese name(s): | 寸/すん sun |
| Hangul: | 마디 madi |
| Stroke order animation | |
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Radical 41 or radical inch (寸部) meaning "thumb" or "inch" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
寸 is also the 31st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 寸 |
| +2 | 对SC (=對) |
| +3 | 寺 寻SC (=尋) 导SC (=導) |
| +4 | 寽 対JP (=對) 寿SC/JP (=壽 -> 士) |
| +5 | 尀 (=叵 -> 口) |
| +6 | 封 専JP (=專) |
| +7 | 尃 射 尅 (=剋 -> 刀) 将SC/JP (=將) |
| +8 | 將 專 尉 |
| +9 | 尊 尋 尌 |
| +11 | 對 |
| +12 | 導 |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.1 It is a fifth grade kanji.1
References
References
- "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Literature
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.