shū
door hinge
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 区 represents the sound. Simplified form of 樞.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 枢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
center | ||
hinge | ||
hinge | ||
privy council | ||
cardinal (Catholicism) |
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 | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+67A2 |
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