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

• 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. It is a fifth grade kanji.

See also

• Cun (unit)

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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+5BF8