週

See also: 周

Translingual

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 週
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		週/周*
simp.		周*

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōu (zhou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chû
• Eastern Min (BUC): ciŭ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chiu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziu¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tseu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhou
    • Wade–Giles: chou¹
    • Yale: jōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jou
    • Palladius: чжоу (čžou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zau¹
    • Yale: jāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chû
    • Hakka Romanization System: zu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡su²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ciŭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sieu⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiu
    • Tâi-lô: tsiu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siu⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ziu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tseu
    • MiniDict: tseu^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tseu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɤ⁵³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 週

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

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Japanese

Kanji

週

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. week

Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)^{←しゆ (syu, historical)}; す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: めぐる (meguru, 週る)

Compounds

Compounds

• 週(しゅう)央(おう) (shūō)
• 週(しゅう)刊(かん) (shūkan)
• 週(しゅう)間(かん) (shūkan)
• 週(しゅう)休(きゅう) (shūkyū)
• 週(しゅう)給(きゅう) (shūkyū)
• 週(しゅう)次(じ) (shūji)
• 週(しゅう)日(じつ) (shūjitsu, “weekday”)
• 週(しゅう)初(しょ) (shūsho)
• 週(しゅう)内(ない) (shūnai)
• 週(しゅう)番(ばん) (shūban)
• 週(しゅう)評(ひょう) (shūhyō)
• 週(しゅう)報(ほう) (shūhō)
• 週(しゅう)末(まつ) (shūmatsu, “weekend”)
• 週(しゅう)齢(れい) (shūrei)
• 聖(せい)週(しゅう) (Seishū)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
週
しゅう Grade: 2
on'yomi

/t͡ɕɨu/ → /ɕjɨu/ → /ɕuː/

From Middle Chinese 周 (MC tsyuw).

Noun

週(しゅう) • (shū) ^{←しう (siu)?}

1. a week (unit of time)

   Synonym: 一週間 (isshūkan)

Derived terms

• 週(しゅう)明(あ)け (shūake)
• 週(しゅう)足(あし) (shūashi)
• 週(しゅう)五(いつ)日(か)制(せい) (shū-itsuka-sei)
• 受(じゅ)難(なん)週(しゅう) (junan-shū)

Counter

週(しゅう) or 週(counter) • (shū or counter) ^{←しう (siu)?}[[Category:Japanese
|しゅう]]

1. weeks

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 一(いっ)週(しゅう) (isshū)
• 隔(かく)週(しゅう) (kakushū)
• 今(こん)週(しゅう) (konshū)
• 昨(さく)週(しゅう) (sakushū)
• 次(じ)週(しゅう) (jishū)
• 先(せん)週(しゅう) (senshū)
• 前(ぜん)週(しゅう) (zenshū, “last week”)
• 別(べつ)週(しゅう) (betsushū, “another week”)
• 毎(まい)週(しゅう) (maishū)
• 翌(よく)週(しゅう) (yokushū)
• 来(らい)週(しゅう) (raishū)

Coordinate terms

Counters for time

• 秒(びょう) (-byō, “seconds”)
• 分(ふん) (-fun, “minutes”)
• 時(じ) (-ji, “hours”)
• 日(にち) (-nichi, “days”)
• 月(げつ) (-getsu, “months”)
• 年(ねん) (-nen, “years”)

Proper noun

週(しゅう) • (Shū) ^{←しう (siu)?}

1. a male or female given name

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. week (unit of time)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 週 (chu, châu)

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