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寸 kanji
measurement, tenth of a shaku, a little, small
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
スン
Kun readings
NoneWords with 寸
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —胸三寸heart; mind; feelings
- —原寸大actual size; full size
- —五寸釘long nail; spike
- —寸止めstopping just before
- —舌三寸eloquence or flattery designed to deceive
- —一寸逃れquibbling; prevarication
- —一寸法師dwarf; midget; elf; Tom Thumb; Jack Sprat; Issun-bōshi (Japanese fairytale)
- —九寸五分dagger
- —三寸の舌eloquent tongue
- —人物寸描thumb-nail sketch
- —寸詰まりa little short; sawed-off (pants)
- —寸足らずa little too short; slightly worse; a bit inferior
- —寸借詐欺petty swindling; petty swindler
- —舌先三寸eloquence or flattery designed to deceive
- —寸進尺退one step forward, many steps backward; little to gain and much to lose
- —寸善尺魔in evil, there is odds; there is more evil than good in this world; one good thing tends to cause many bad things to happen
- —餓死寸前being on the verge of starvation; being about to starve
- —絶滅寸前Critically Endangered (conservation status); CE
- —崩壊寸前on the brink of collapse; in a state of near-collapse
- —胸先三寸one's mind; one's inner feelings; (a decision hinging on) how someone feels about it