# 樞

| 樞 | U+6A1E, &#27166; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A1E |
| ← 樝 [U+6A1D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 樟 → [U+6A1F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

樞 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木尸口口 (DSRR), four-corner 4191$_6$, composition ⿰木區)

#### Derived characters

* 䉩

#### 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

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 樞 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰjo) : semantic 木 + phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shū (shu$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): syu$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): su / chhu / khi / thi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ku$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shū
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shu
*** Wade–Giles: shu$^1$
*** Yale: shū
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
*** Palladius: шу (šu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂu⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: syu$^1$
*** Yale: syū
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sy$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /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/
* su/chhu - literary;
* khi/thi - vernacular (俗).
* 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 | cyu$^1$ |
* 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

樞
* door hinge
* pivot
* center of power

### Compounds

* 中樞／中枢 (zhōngshū)
* 天樞／天枢
* 樞機／枢机 (shūjī)
* 樞紐／枢纽 (shūniǔ)
* 樞軸／枢轴 (shūzhóu)
* 要樞／要枢

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 枢 |
| Kyūjitai | 樞 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 枢)
* pivot
* 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)

## Korean
### Hanja

樞 • (chu, u) (hangeul 추, 우)
* door hinge
* pivot
* center of power

## Vietnamese
### Han character

樞: Hán Nôm readings: xu, su, sù, xô, xù, xũ, khu, xó, xụ
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