Character Details
| week; cycle | Ascii: 38065 | w40 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 周 | zhōu | djoh | 1 | 冂 (open box) + 吉 (lucky) → week; circumference | 周 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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If my LIDDED CROCK has the same CIRCUMFERENCE as my head, I like to use it as a HELMET. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - What are your plans for the weekend? | - Would Wednesday morning be okay? | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 30 - 口 | kǒu | mouth | mouth | square mouth | 口 吃 和 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 冂 (open box) + 吉 (lucky) → week; circumference | 口 (semantic origin) | 吉 (phonetic) | phonetic from 吉 | ||||||||