Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- shū
English
- door hinge
- (bound form) hinge; pivot (usu. fig.)
- pivot
- center of power
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Variants
Words containing 樞
- 樞紐syu1 nau2
hub (e.g. of traffic network)
- 中樞zung1 syu1
center; hub
- 樞密院syu1 mat6 jyun2
privy council
- 中樞神經zung1 syu1 san4 ging1
(anatomy) central nervous system
- 樞機syu1 gei1
cardinal (Catholicism)
- 樞軸syu1 zuk6
pivot; fulcrum
- 神經中樞san4 ging1 zung1 syu1
(anatomy) nerve center
- 天樞tin1 syu1
Dubhe; Alpha Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper
- 要樞jiu3 syu1
important hub; key position
- 樞垣syu1 wun4
censorate
- 信息樞紐seon3 sik1 syu1 nau2
- 交通樞紐gaau1 tung1 syu1 nau2
traffic hub
- 中部樞紐zung1 bou6 syu1 nau2
- 中樞系統zung1 syu1 hai6 tung2
- 天樞星tin1 syu1 sing1
- 靈樞經ling4 syu1 ging1
Lingshu Jing (Divine Pivot, or Spiritual Pivot), ancient Chinese medical text (c. 1st century BC)
- 戶樞不蠹wu6 syu1 bat1 dou3
lit. a door hinge never becomes worm-eaten
- 中樞神經系統zung1 syu1 san4 ging1 hai6 tung2
central nervous system, CNS
- 樞機主教syu1 gei1 zyu2 gaau3
cardinal (of the Catholic Church)