The component 寸, one of the variants of 手, serves as a semantic component to form associative compound ideographs 会意字 and also as a phonetic component to form phono-semantic characters.
See also this variant of 手: 刍
Characters formed by the phonetic component 寸
村 cūn
吋 籿 with the same pronunciation cùn
忖 刌 with the same pronunciation cǔn
Characters formed by the semantic component 寸
Characters formed by 寸 denote hand-related actions or hand-related extended meanings.
3 |
寸 |
cùn |
5 |
对 |
duì |
6 |
导 |
dǎo |
6 |
寺 |
sì |
6 |
寻 |
xún |
7 |
寿 |
shòu |
7 |
対 |
duì |
7 |
寽 |
luè |
8 |
尀 |
pǒ |
9 |
封 |
fēng |
9 |
将 |
jiàng,jiāng,qiāng |
9 |
専 |
zhuān |
10 |
射 |
shè |
10 |
尅 |
kēi |
10 |
尃 |
fū |
11 |
尉 |
wèi,yù |
11 |
將 |
jiāng |
11 |
專 |
zhuān |
12 |
zūn |
12 |
尋 |
xún |
|
12 |
尌 |
shù |
14 |
對 |
duì |
15 |
導 |
dǎo |
6 |
夺 |
duó |