漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
週: week
JLPT N411 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 周 gives the sound
11 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
シュウshuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 今週こんしゅうthis week
- 先週せんしゅうlast week
- 来週らいしゅうnext week
- 週末しゅうまつweekend
- 一週間いっしゅうかんone week
- 週しゅうweek
- 週刊しゅうかんweekly publication
- 毎週まいしゅう
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵 walking, as 辶 (meaning) + 周 (sound)
Considered a 後起字. Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 辶 (“walking”) + phonetic 周.
Source: Wiktionary, 週 (rev. 92163004), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
周
Also built on circumference (周)
週 takes the 周 family's reading, シュウ (shuu).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side週 week · ⻌
vs彫 carve · 彡In ChineseSimplified 周 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhōu
Japan keeps the traditional form 週; mainland China simplifies it to 周.
- Simplified
- 周 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 週 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhōu most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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