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
Radical 41 (U+2F28)
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

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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+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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