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Popular Chinese island (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inch

'island' is the definition.
(inch can mean a small island)

'popular chinese' is the wordplay.
'popular' becomes 'in' ('in' can mean trendy).
'chinese' becomes 'ch' (I've seen this in other clues).
'in'+'ch'='INCH'

(Other definitions for inch that I've seen before include "One 63,360th of a mile" , "Not very far" , "Small measurement unit of distance" , "Progress slowly" , "Non-metric measure" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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