Definify.com

Definition 2025

樞

樞

See also: 枢

Translingual

Han character

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

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

References

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

Chinese

trad. 樞
simp. 枢

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 樞
Large seal script Small seal script
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

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
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
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		 /*qˤ(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

樞

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Japanese

Kanji

樞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Readings

Korean

Hanja

樞 • ‎(chu, u) (hangeul 추, 우, revised chu, u, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, u, Yale chwu, wu)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

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

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Similar Results