枢 – hinge, pivot, door

8 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1791 in newspaper frequencyN1 vocabulary

The kanji 枢 means hinge, pivot, door, center of things. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is スウ、シュ (suu, shu); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is とぼそ、からくり (toboso, karakuri). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 木 (no. 75).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	スウ	suu
On’yomi	シュ	shu
Kun’yomi	とぼそ	toboso
Kun’yomi	からくり	karakuri

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 木 (Kangxi radical 75). Components: 木・匚.

Words using 枢

中枢ちゅうすうcentre

Example sentences

東京は今や世界経済の中枢だ。

Tokyo is now a center of the world economy.

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Kanji with the same radical

本東業来機権査案村果格検校構木条

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.