週

See also: 周
週 U+9031, 週
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9031
← 逰
[U+9030] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 進 →
[U+9032]

Translingual

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: 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

Chinese
trad. 週/周*
simp. 周*

Glyph origin
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) : semantic 辶 (“walking”) + phonetic 周 (OC *tjɯw).

Etymology

Same word as 周 (OC *tjɯw).

Pronunciation

Definitions

週

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

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 星期 (“week”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 星期, 週
Mandarin Taiwan 星期, 禮拜
Harbin 禮拜
Yantai (Muping) 星期
Jinan 星期, 禮拜
Wanrong 星期
Xi'an 星期, 禮拜
Yinchuan 星期, 禮拜
Lanzhou 星期
Xining 星期
Ürümqi 禮拜, 星期
Wuhan 星期, 禮拜
Chengdu 星期, 禮拜
Guiyang 禮拜, 星期
Liuzhou 禮拜, 星期
Xuzhou 星期, 禮拜
Nanjing 禮拜
Malaysia 禮拜
Singapore 禮拜, 星期
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 期, 星期
Cantonese Guangzhou 禮拜
Hong Kong 禮拜, 星期
Dongguan 禮拜
Yangjiang 禮拜, 星期
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 禮拜
Singapore (Guangfu) 禮拜
Gan Nanchang 禮拜
Lichuan 禮拜
Pingxiang 禮拜
Hakka Meixian 星期
Yudu 禮拜
Kuching (Hepo) 禮拜
Huizhou Jixi 禮拜, 星期
Jin Taiyuan 禮拜
Xinzhou 星期, 禮拜
Min Bei Jian'ou 星期
Min Dong Fuzhou 禮拜
Min Nan Xiamen 禮拜
Quanzhou 禮拜
Zhangzhou 禮拜
Tainan 禮拜
Penang (Hokkien) 禮拜
Singapore (Hokkien) 禮拜
Manila (Hokkien) 禮拜
Chaozhou 禮拜
Shantou 禮拜
Singapore (Teochew) 禮拜
Haikou 禮拜
Zhongshan Min Sanxiang 禮拜
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 禮拜, 星期
Wu Shanghai 禮拜
Shanghai (Chongming) 禮拜
Suzhou 禮拜, 星期
Danyang 禮拜
Hangzhou 禮拜, 星期
Ningbo 禮拜
Wenzhou 禮拜
Jinhua 星期
Xiang Loudi 禮拜

Compounds
  • 一週遭／一周遭
  • 可週／可周
  • 圖書館週／图书馆周
  • 壇坫週旋／坛坫周旋
  • 大週摺／大周折
  • 宣傳週／宣传周
  • 恆星週期／恒星周期
  • 扶幼週／扶幼周
  • 抓週／抓周 (zhuāzhōu)
  • 時代週刊／时代周刊
  • 本週／本周
  • 波浪週期／波浪周期

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (週):
  • → Japanese: 週(しゅう) (shū)
  • → Korean: 주(週) (ju)

Others:

  • → Zhuang: cou

References

Japanese
Shinjitai 週
Kyūjitai
[1]
週󠄁
週+󠄁?
(Adobe-Japan1)
週󠄃
週+󠄃?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji
週

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. week

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

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

/t͡ɕɨu/ → /ɕjɨu/ → /ɕuː/

From Middle Chinese 周 (MC t͡ɕɨu).

Pronunciation

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) • (-shū) ←しう (siu)?

  1. weeks

Coordinate terms
Counters for time

Derived terms
Derived terms

Proper noun

週(しゅう) • (Shū) ←しう (siu)?

  1. a male or female given name

References
  1. “週”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

週 (eumhun 돌 주 (dol ju))

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

Compounds
Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

週: Hán Nôm readings: chu, châu

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