Chinese name: 寸
Pinyin: cùn
English name: inch
Imagery: taking someone’s pulse
History of radical: This pulsating radical is called inch. It is usually placed to the right or the bottom of a character. In oracle bones it is a picture of a wrist and the vein where a pulse is taken. The distance between the wrist and this vein is a unit of measurement in China. Characters with this radical relate to hand or units of measurement.
For example:
- 对 (duì): right; check
- 导 (dǎo): guide
- 射 (shè): shoot