週

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

• 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

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

Considered a 後起字／后起字 (hòuqǐzì). Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 辶 (“walking”) + phonetic 周 (OC *tjɯw).

Same word as 周 (OC *tjɯw).

週

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

Others:

• → Zhuang: cou

• “週”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. week

• 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)

/t͡ɕɨu/ → /ɕjɨu/ → /ɕuː/

From Middle Chinese 周 (MC tsyuw).

• (Tokyo) しゅ​う [shúꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕɨᵝː]

週(しゅう) • (shū) ^{←しう (siu)?}

1. a week (unit of time)

   Synonym: 一週間 (isshūkan)

• 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)

週(しゅう) • (-shū) ^{←しう (siu)?}

1. weeks

週(しゅう) • (Shū) ^{←しう (siu)?}

1. a male or female given name

週 (eumhun 돌 주 (dol ju))

1. Hanja form^? of 주 (“week (unit of time)”).

週: Hán Nôm readings: chu, châu

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