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It is an ideogram composed of the shape of a hand (又) combined with a single stroke.
This stroke represents the location near the wrist where the pulse is felt.
As a unit of length, 寸 historically referred to the length from the wrist to the pulse point on a person's body, which was used as a standard measurement.

#33 — scholar, gentleman, soldier

#34 — to come after, to follow behind, to hesitate

#35 — to walk slowly, slow steps

#36 — evening, dusk, right foot

#37 — large, big, great

#38 — female, woman, daughter

#39 — son, child, baby, male, person, you (second-person pronoun), fruit, seed

#40 — house

#41 — joint, inch (a unit of measurement), small/little, degree of kinship

#42 — small, little, smallness, small things

#43 — lame, crippled, person with a leg disability

#44 — corpse, dead body, a living person who represents the dead person during a rite

#45 — left hand, to sprout

#46 — mountain, grave

#47 — a stream where water flows, river, brook

#48 — master craftsman, master artisan, tool, to make, to build

#49 — self, ego, body

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