Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- cùn
English
- inch
- a unit of length
- cocky (Cantonese)
- small, tiny
- inch
- Kangxi radical 41
- thumb
- to humiliate; to provoke
- arrogant; condescending
- inch
粵語
- 神情囂張、言辭尖酸咁挑釁人
- 得戚;態度囂張
- 長度單位,一吋係十二分之一尺,十分,2.54厘米,符號為 in 或 "
Stroke order
As a component in · 231
Variants
Words containing 寸
- 尺寸cek3 cyun3
size; dimensions; measurements (esp. of clothes)
- 英寸jing1 cyun3
inch (unit of length equal to 2.54 cm.)
- 分寸fan1 cyun3
propriety
- 報寸bou3 cyun3
to report someone secretly tp law enforcement
- 明寸ming4 cyun3
to deliberately provoke and making it very obvious to all; to be deliberately insolent and not making any attempt to be pretentious about it [colloquial]
- 手無寸鐵sau2 mou4 cyun3 tit3
lit. not an inch of steel (idiom); unarmed and defenseless
- 寸口cyun3 hau2
location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM
- 有分寸jau5 fan1 cyun3
to have a sense of propriety; to have a sense of knowing what is appropriate or what is the acceptable limits
- 寸嘴cyun3 zeoi2
describes someone who speaks in an arrogant manner
- 寸斷cyun3 dyun6
to break apart inch by inch
- 暗寸am3 cyun3
to make a mocking comment, often in a wry manner
- 寸勁cyun3 ging6
the explosiveness emerge from small movement of body or jab; to punch using a short jab with explosiveness on arm and fist, the pull back and preparation movement is very small. Literally:inch power
- 寸脈cyun3 mak6
pulse taken at the wrist (TCM)
- 冇分寸mou5 fan1 cyun3
to have no sense of propriety; to have no sense of knowing what is appropriate or what is the acceptable limits
- 寸得起cyun3 dak1 hei2
have got every reason to be arrogant
- 得寸進尺dak1 cyun3 zeon3 cek3
lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains
- 寸步難行cyun3 bou6 naan4 hang4
unable to move a single step (idiom)
- 量尺寸loeng4 cek3 cyun3
to take sb's measurements
- 頭寸tau4 cyun3
(finance) cash position; position
- 寸心cyun3 sam1
mere proof of my regard; This is as a small token of my feelings
- 市寸si5 cyun3
cun (Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ decimeter)
- 手寸sau2 cyun3
- 寸頭cyun3 tau4
(male hair style) crew cut
- 方寸fong1 cyun3
square cun (Chinese unit of area: 1 cun × 1 cun, or 3⅓ cm × 3⅓ cm)