cun

Chinese unit of length; the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle; today standardized as 10/3 cm in mainland China and Taiwan; as 1/33 m in Japan
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cun

Summary

cun ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cun's image is recorded as Cun2.gif[2].
  • cun's measured physical quantity is recorded as length[3].
  • cun's subclass of is recorded as unit of length[4].
  • cun's Commons category is recorded as Cun (unit)[5].
  • cun's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025sl9b[6].
  • cun's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '寸'}[7].
  • cun's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '寸'}[8].
  • cun's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '치'}[9].
  • cun's different from is recorded as sun[10].
  • cun's different from is recorded as Hong Kong tsun[11].
  • cun's different from is recorded as Chinese cun[12].
  • cun's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11bc6xqzwy[13].
  • cun's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as cun[14].

Why It Matters

cun ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75 views/month).[1] cun has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] cun is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). cun. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/cun
MLA “cun.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/cun.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cun_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cun}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cun}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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