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English definition inch; small, tiny; Kangxi radical 41
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system cun4
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) cùn(63) cun(29)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *tsuə̀n
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system cyun3
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system chyun3
Japanese (Kana) スン ソン き とき
Japanese (Hepburn) hakaru toki ki
Sino-Japanese sun son
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system chon
Hangul 촌:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ thốn
Specialized semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning only in certain contexts)
Unicode radical / stroke count + 0
Unicode total stroke count 3
Cangjie DI
Four corner code 4030.0
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 2
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 503, character 8
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> has a radical break beginning at this character's position radical
volume 1, page 503, character 8
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 293, position 32
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 581, position 4
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 0431a
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 432, row 2, position 2
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 399, character 50
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 173, character 4
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 18B
page 563, position 4
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 6892
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 389
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 4814
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 3465
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 1044
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 1348
PRC telegraph code 1407
Taiwan telegraph code 1407
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 23544 / 5BF8


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