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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

寸: measurement, tenth of a shaku

Also: a little, small

JLPT N13 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
3 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

スンsun · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 寸法すんぽうmeasurement, size
  • 寸評すんぴょうbrief review, thumbnail sketch
  • 寸時すんじmoment, very short time
  • 寸劇すんげきshort play, skit
  • 寸陰すんいんbrief moment
  • 一寸いっすんone sun (3.03 cm), a little
  • 原寸大げんすんだいactual size, full size
  • 寸前にすんぜんにjust before
  • 寸断するすんだんするcut to pieces

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

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Two separate characters with this form exist:.

Source: Wiktionary, 寸 (rev. 92746420), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The base kanji for the traditional measurement (sun), used to describe the "size" or "dimensions" of small objects.”
From the 寸 inch story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

寸 gives its sound to

Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read スン

1 kanji shares this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · cùn

Same form: 寸 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
寸 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
寸 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin cùn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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