樞

See also: 枢

Translingual

Han character

樞 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木尸口口 (DSRR), four-corner 4191₆, composition ⿰木區)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 550, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15450
• Dae Jaweon: page 938, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1276, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6A1E

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Chinese

trad.		樞
simp.		枢

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 樞
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
摳	*kʰoː, *kʰo
彄	*kʰoː
剾	*kʰoː, *qoː
謳	*qoː
歐	*qoː, *qoːʔ
區	*qoː, *kʰo
鷗	*qoː
甌	*qoː
漚	*qoː, *qoːs
瞘	*qoː
嘔	*qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙	*qoː
膒	*qoː
蓲	*qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧	*qoː, *qas
鏂	*qoː
毆	*qoːʔ
塸	*qoːʔ
貙	*kʰl'o
樞	*kʰjo
驅	*kʰo, *kʰos
軀	*kʰo
嶇	*kʰo
鰸	*kʰo
敺	*kʰo
傴	*qoʔ
嫗	*qos
饇	*qos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): su / chhu / khi / thi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shu
    • Wade–Giles: shu¹
    • Yale: shū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: syu¹
    • Yale: syū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su
    • Tâi-lô: su
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhu
    • Tâi-lô: tshu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhw
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰu⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khi
    • Tâi-lô: khi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thi
    • Tâi-lô: thi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ty
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰi⁴⁴/

Note:

• su/chhu - literary;
• khi/thi - vernacular (俗).

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhu

Rime
Character	樞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	昌朱切
Baxter	tsyhu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰio/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰuə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰio/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤ(r)o/, /*t.qʰ(r)o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰjo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	樞	樞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shū	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔuw ›	‹ tsyhu ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁ(r)o/	/*t.qʰ(r)o/
English	a kind of elm	pivot
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	樞
Reading #	1/1
No.	10604
Phonetic component	區
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	樞
Old Chinese	/*kʰjo/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 樞

1. door hinge
2. pivot
3. center of power

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Japanese

Shinjitai	枢
Kyūjitai	樞

Kanji

樞

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 枢)

1. pivot
2. door

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan’yō-on: すう (sū)
• Kun: とぼそ (toboso, 樞); からくり (karakuri, 樞)

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Korean

Hanja

樞 • (chu, u) (hangeul 추, 우)

1. door hinge
2. pivot
3. center of power

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 樞 (xu, su, sù, xô, xù, xũ, khu, xó, xụ)

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