Zi:寸

寸 [cùn] (单位) inch; measure; (中医) 寸口 ‘pulse-point on the wrist’; (radical 41, 寸部); (HDZ:) …; (姓) [cǔn] 忖: 思量 (cf. 刌)

One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Cantonese-English Dictionary (namespace Jyut):

One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):

►cùn 寸 {B} m. Ch. inch (equals 1/3 decimeter) ◆b.f. very little/short ►²cùnjìn 寸进 ◆adv. 〈environment:〉 slang coincidentally; just; exactly

The Shuōwén Seal form of 寸(􀡻) cùn ‘pulse-point; measure/rule’ combines 又(􀠋) yòu ‘hand and wrist’, with a horizontal line 一 (wr. ㇔ in the modern form) marking the point on the wrist (about one inch from the hand) where the pulse is taken/measured (寸口).
    Compare: 刌(􀯧) cǔn ‘sever; estimate/guess’ (忖), in which 寸(􀡻) cùn (phonosemantic).
    Compare: 血(􀶰) xuè/xuě ‘blood (vessel)’, in which the horizontal line represents blood.
    Compare: 脉/脈(􁾭) mài ‘blood vessels’; 衅/釁(􀞀) xìn ‘blood sacrifice/offering; conflict/dispute’.
    Compare: 辱(􂥵); 尊(􂧎); 射(􀹞); 𡬹(􀔒􀔑𨖁道); 䙷(􀔽􀔼𢔶得); 討(􀜦); 对/對(􀝊); 守(􁏍); 冠(􁒨); 付(􁗆).
    Compare: 寽(􀫖) lǜ/luō ‘stroke/smooth’, in which the component is 𠬪(􀫎) biào ‘give’, not 寸(􀡻).
    Note: In simplified characters, the component 寸 substitutes for the full-form component 咼 in 过/過, but otherwise 呙 is used (as in 涡, 祸, 窝, , 脶, 莴, …).
    HDZ: 寸 : cùn : (SW: 十分) (单位) 十分 (长度), (古) 计量长度单位的标准不同…; (形容) 极小, 极短 (一寸光阴一寸金); (中医) 寸脉, 寸口; 襯: 协助; (姓) • cǔn : 忖: 思量 (cf. 刌)
    HDC: 寸口 : (中医) 切脉部位名, 两手掌后一寸桡动脉处, 凡肝、心、脾、肺、肾之脉皆会于此 (气口, 脉口, cf. 寸脉)
    HDC: 寸脈 : 寸口, cf. 寸關尺
    HDC: 寸關尺 : (中医) 切脉三部部位名, 桡骨茎突处为关, 关前为寸, 关后为尺
 ►references: Guǎngyùn:399.50; Wieger:45b; Karlgren:AD1113,GSR431a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.503.8; Mathews:6892; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:293.32; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:002.1.04; Wáng(1993):17; EDOC:1
►components: 丶
►Cantonese: chyun-
Shuōwén: 􀡻(寸)
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