Translingual

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 週
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 辶 ‎(“walking”) + phonetic 周 ‎(OC *tjɯw).

Han character

週 (radical 162 辵+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜月土口 (YBGR), four-corner 3730₂, composition ⿺辶周)

References

• KangXi: page 1259, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38937
• Dae Jaweon: page 1749, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3852, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9031

Chinese

Pronunciation

Definitions

週

1. week
2. circumference
3. turn, cycle
4. anniversary

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: しゅ (shu), す (su)
• Kan’on: しゅう (shū) > しう (shiu)
• Kun: めぐる (meguru) , なぬか (nanuka)

Compounds

• 週末 (しゅうまつ) ‎(shūmatsu): weekend
• 終末 (しゅうまつ) ‎(shūmatsu): end; finish
• 月末 (げつまつ) ‎(getsumatsu): end of the month

Noun

週 ‎(hiragana しゅう, romaji shū, historical hiragana しう)

1. week (unit of time)

Counter

週 ‎(hiragana しゅう, romaji -shū, historical hiragana しう)

1. weeks

Korean

Hanja

週 • ‎(ju) (hangeul 주, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

1. week (unit of time)

Vietnamese

Han character

週 (chu, châu)

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