いっすん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of いっすん – see the following entry.
一寸
[noun] one sun: a unit of length equivalent to a tenth of a (shaku, traditional Japanese foot as a unit of length), or approximately 3.03 centimeters
[noun] a short amount of time, distance, or mass
(This term, いっすん (issun), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)