週

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

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

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

• 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

週

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

(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 t͡ɕɨu).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) しゅ​う [shúꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕɨᵝː]

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

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 (hiragana しゅう, rōmaji -shū, historical hiragana しう)

1. weeks

週 (hiragana しゅう, rōmaji Shū, historical hiragana しう)

1. a male or female given name

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

1. week (unit of time)

週 (chu, châu)

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