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Property Value
English definition English inch (寸 can be either an English or Chinese inch)
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system cun4
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system cyun3
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system chyun3
Japanese (Kana) トウ ズ スン インチ
Japanese (Hepburn) inchi
Sino-Japanese sun tou
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system chon
Hangul 촌:1N
Specialized semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning only in certain contexts)
Unicode radical / stroke count + 3
Unicode total stroke count 6
Cangjie RDI
Four corner code 6400.0
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 1, page 577, character 3
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 175, position 4
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 389, position 4
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 256, row 6, position 2
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 90, character 5
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 277
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 6893
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 390
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 0497
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 0879
PRC telegraph code 8120
Taiwan telegraph code 8169
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 21515 / 540B


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