寸土

Chinese

		a unit of length	earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
simp. and trad. (寸土)		寸	土

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cùntǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄊㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun³ tou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cùntǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cùntǔ
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻun⁴-tʻu³
    • Yale: tswùn-tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuenntuu
    • Palladius: цуньту (cunʹtu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən⁵¹ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun³ tou²
    • Yale: chyun tóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn³ tou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun³ tou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn³³ tʰou̯³⁵/

Noun

寸土

1. very small piece of land

   • 中國共產黨和全國人民一樣，不容許日本保留中國的寸土。 [MSC, trad.]
     中国共产党和全国人民一样，不容许日本保留中国的寸土。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng hé quánguó rénmín yīyàng, bù róngxǔ Rìběn bǎoliú Zhōngguó de cùntǔ. [Pinyin]

     Like the people of the whole country, the Chinese Communist Party will not allow Japan to retain an inch of Chinese territory.

Synonyms

• 寸地 (cùndì)

Derived terms

• 寸土寸金 (cùntǔcùnjīn)
• 寸土必爭／寸土必争 (cùntǔbìzhēng)