Onyomi: シュウ · Kunyomi: - · Meanings: week
Kanji for week
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The kanji 週 combines the “walk/movement” radical (辶) with the character for “week” or “cycle” (周), symbolizing a path that goes around. It represents the cycle of days, the rhythm of time, and the repetition of weekly life. 週 came to mean “week,” capturing the idea of regular movement through time.
A path moving in a cycle — 週 means week, the repeating cycle of seven days.
Imagine walking along a path that brings you back to the start every seven days — that’s 週, the kanji for week and cycles of time.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 週 | しゅう | week | common JLPT-N3 Noun, Noun, used as a suffix |
| 週間 | しゅうかん | week | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 週末 | しゅうまつ | weekend | common Adverb (fukushi), Noun |
| 週刊誌 | しゅうかんし | weekly (publication), weekly magazine, weekly journal | common Noun |
| 週休 | しゅうきゅう | weekly holiday | common Noun |
| 週明け | しゅうあけ | beginning of next week (usu. Monday), early next week | common Noun |
| 週給 | しゅうきゅう | weekly pay | Noun |
| 週日 | しゅうじつ | weekday | Noun |
| 週内 | しゅうない | by the end of this week, within the week | common Noun |
| 週刊 | しゅうかん | weekly publication | common Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |