Radical 41
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.
| 寸 | ||
|---|---|---|
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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 | |
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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 |
Literature
- Fazzioli, Edoardo. Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.CS1 maint: location (link)
- 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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