Illustration: Inside a Japanese railway operations room, staff at several surrounding consoles turn toward one central controller. An illuminated track diagram contains only branching lines and train-position dots.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

中ちゅう枢すう

chuusuu

center, core

Example sentences

東京とうきょうは今いまや世界経済せかいけいざいの中枢ちゅうすうだ。
Tokyo is now a center of the world economy.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
幕政ばくせいを主導しゅどうする中枢ちゅうすうの一人ひとりとなる。
He thus became one of the core members of the bakufu government.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
実質じっしつ、幕政ばくせいの中枢ちゅうすうを握にぎったに等ひとしい事態じたいである。
In substance, he took the helm of state affairs of bakufu.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 中枢

中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる
枢hinge; pivotOnスウ・シュKunとぼそ・からくり

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