U+5BF8 "寸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
寸
U+5BF8 "寸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with the meaning "thumb" or "inch," representing a traditional unit of length in East Asian cultures. It originated as a pictograph depicting a hand with a mark indicating the position of the wrist pulse, reflecting its association with measurement. Today, this character is commonly used in Japanese (as "sun"), Korean ("chon"), and Chinese (as "cùn") to denote both the physical unit of about 3.03 centimeters in Japan or 3.33 centimeters in China, as well as figuratively in terms of small size or degree, appearing in everyday words like "寸法" (dimension) and idioms such as "寸步难行" (unable to move an inch).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5BF8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 寸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 寸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAF 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5BF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005BF8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5bf8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A46F |
| kCCCII | 213B3A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4450 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4450 |
| kCangjie | DI |
| kCantonese | cyun3 |
| kCihaiT | 432.202 |
| kCowles | 4814 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0581.040 |
| kDefinition | inch; small, tiny; Kangxi radical 41 |
| kEACC | 213B3A |
| kFanqie | 倉困 |
| kFenn | 18B |
| kFennIndex | 563.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4030.0 |
| kGB0 | 2071 |
| kGB1 | 2071 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0431a |
| kHangul | 촌:0E |
| kHanYu | 10503.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | cùn(63) cun(29) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10503.080:cùn,cǔn |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼨[U+2F28]:10503.080 |
| kHKGlyph | 1044 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0581.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10503.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0293.320 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3467 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A46F |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4023 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EEA4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-753B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4450 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5277 |
| kJapanese | スン ソン き とき |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:31 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAKARU TOKI KI |
| kJapaneseOn | SUN SON |
| kJis0 | 3203 |
| kKangXi | 0293.320 |
| kKorean | CHON |
| kLau | 389 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1407 |
| kMandarin | cùn |
| kMatthews | 6892 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3465 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010253 |
| kMorohashi | 07411 |
| kNelson | 1348 |
| kPhonetic | 277 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2631+41.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 41.0 |
| kSBGY | 399.50 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 173.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cùn粵cyun3 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+540B |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1407 |
| kTang | *tsuə̀n |
| kTGHZ2013 | 059.060:cùn |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thốn |
| kXerox | 247:114 |
| kXHC1983 | 0185.020:cùn |