Radical 41

寸
← 40 Radical 41 (U+2F28) 42 →
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

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

• 
  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]

See also

• Cun (unit)

References

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.

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