shū
door hinge
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 區 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 樞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
center | ||
hinge | ||
hinge | ||
privy council | ||
cardinal (Catholicism) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qˤ(r)o | 'uw | shū | a kind of elm |
*t.qʰ(r)o | tsyhu | shū | pivot |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.4256% of movies
3200th most common character in movies
2616th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6A1E |
Shuowen | “樞，戶樞也。从木，區聲。” |
Sources
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