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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Sorry Folks,<BR>As best I can tell, there are at least four different equivalents given for 1 <em>寸</em><BR>1 <em>寸 =</em> 3.71475 cm<BR>1 <em>寸 = 3.03 cm</em><BR>1 <em>寸 - 3.3 cm</em><BR>with the contemporary measure being 3.33333...cm<BR>six tenths of each of the first three would be<BR>2.22885 cm<BR>1.818 cm<BR>1.98 cm, respectively<BR>My calculation in points should have read <span class="ecxst1"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-CA">1.463" x 72 = 105.336 x 6 / 10 = 63.2 points</span></span><br>And the first line should have read "math<strong>e</strong>matically."<BR>best,<BR>jim<br> <BR><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: jimpthomas@hotmail.com<br>To: koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<br>Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:53:17 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [KS] Querry: good translation for pun 分 (size of logographs)<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Richard<br><em>If the size of the Sino-Korean logographs (characters) is said to be six pun (yukpun 六分), does that mean the logographs are six-tenths of an "inch" (ch'on 寸) in size?</em> <em>Would it be best to try to translate it into the jargon of present-day type measurement by using the term point? </em> <br>
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Mathmatically speaking, six ch'on is almost exactly 7/8" (see below), which would seem about the right size for small characters inscribed on stele. I think '7/8" logographs' sounds much better than '63 point logographs.' Or, alternatively, 1 <em>寸 </em> = ~2.085cm, or rounding down and up = 2cm or 21mm. <br>
best,<br>
jim<br>
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1 <em>寸 = ~</em><span class="ecxst1"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-CA">1.463"</span></span><br>
<span class="ecxst1"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-CA">1 point = 1/72"</span></span><br>
<span class="ecxst1"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-CA">1.463 x 72 = 105.336 / 6 x 10 = 63.2 points</span></span><br>
<span class="ecxst1"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-CA">63 / 72 = 7/8"</span></span><br>
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