Radical 41

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← 40 Radical 41 (U+2F28) 42 →
(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.

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

Strokes Characters
+0
+2 SC (=對)
+3 SC (=尋) SC (=導)
+4 JP (=對) 寿SC/JP (= -> )
+5 (= -> )
+6 JP (=專)
+7 (= -> ) SC/JP (=將)
+8
+9
+11
+12

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.{{cite book}}: 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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