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周

周

周 U+5468, 周
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5468
← 呧
[U+5467] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 呩 →
[U+5469]
See also: 固 and 週

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

周 (radical 30 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月土口 (BGR), four-corner 77220, composition ⿵⺆𠮷)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 181, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3441
  • Dae Jaweon: page 400, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 606, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5468

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 周 – see 週.
(This character, 周, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 週.)
Notes:

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
 周

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 周
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂou⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂou⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂou²¹/
/t͡sou²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂou²¹³/
Qingdao /tʃou²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂou²⁴/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂou²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂɯ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂəu⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂou³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂɤu⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡səu⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡səu⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡səu⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂəu⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂəɯ³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂɯ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡səu¹¹/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂəu¹³/
Hohhot /t͡səu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sɤ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sɤ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sei³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕɤu³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiu³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂəu³³/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂəɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sɨu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡su⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʃu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sɐu⁵³/
Nanning /t͡sɐu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sɐu⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡siu⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡siu⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡siu³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡siu²³/
Rime
Character 周
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職流切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuw/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiu/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhōu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 周 周
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhōu zhōu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyuw › ‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tiw/ /*tiw/
English Zhōu (dynasty and place) cycle; all around

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 周
Reading # 1/1
No. 17531
Phonetic
component		 周
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 周
Old
Chinese		 /*tjɯw/
Notes 甲金文象田間稼密，爲稠初文

Definitions

周

  1. the Zhou Dynasty
  2. surroundings
  3. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

周

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. circumference
  2. circuit
  3. lap

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
周
しゅう
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 周 ‎(tsyuw).

Pronunciation

Counter

周 ‎(hiragana しゅう, romaji -shū, historical hiragana しう)

  1. laps or circuits

Proper noun

周 ‎(hiragana しゅう, romaji Shū, historical hiragana しう)

  1. Zhou

Proper noun

周 ‎(hiragana まこと, romaji Makoto)

  1. A male given name

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

周 • ‎(ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

周 (chu, châu)

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