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See also:
U+9031, 週
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9031

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

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

References

  • 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

Chinese

trad. /*
simp. *

Glyph origin

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

Considered a 後起字后起字 (hòuqǐzì). Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声) : semantic (walking) + phonetic (OC *tjɯw).

Etymology

Same word as (OC *tjɯw).

Pronunciation


Definitions

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

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

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

Others:

  • Zhuang: cou

References

Japanese

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1]

週󠄁
+󠄁?
(Adobe-Japan1)
週󠄃
+󠄃?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. week

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
しゅう
Grade: 2
on'yomi

/t͡ɕɨu//ɕjɨu//ɕuː/

From Middle Chinese (MC tsyuw).

Pronunciation

Noun

(しゅう) (shūしう (siu)?

  1. a week (unit of time)
    Synonym: 一週間 (isshūkan)

Derived terms

Counter

(しゅう) (-shūしう (-siu)?

  1. weeks

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Proper noun

(しゅう) (Shūしう (Siu)?

  1. a male or female given name

References

  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun (dol ju))

  1. hanja form? of (week (unit of time))

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: chu, châu

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