Kanji1 / 8
周 kanji
circumference, circuit, lap
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
シュウ
Kun readings
まわり
Words with 周
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —周旋(acting as an) intermediate; mediation; employment office (Edo period)
- —周波cycle; wave; frequency
- —周密scrupulous; careful; meticulous
- —周覧looking all around
- —周流flowing around
- —分周division
- —四周periphery; circumference
- —周天the full scope of the heavens; 360 degrees; one full revolution of Earth; twelve years; one full cycle of the Chinese calendar
- —周尺Zhou shaku (approx. 20 cm)
- —西周Western Zhou dynasty (of China; ca. 1046-771 BCE); Western Chou dynasty
- —東周Eastern Zhou dynasty (of China; 771-256 BCE); Eastern Chou dynasty
- —周壁peripheral wall; surrounding wall
- —後周Later Zhou dynasty (of China; 951-960); Later Chou dynasty
- —周面surface of a cylinder; skin of a cylinder
- —横周width
- —歯周periodontal; parodontal
- —周長perimeter; circumference
- —北周Northern Zhou dynasty (of China; 557-581); Northern Chou dynasty
- —内周inner circumference; internal circumference
- —全周going around the entirety (of a place); going on a trip all around (a place); complete tour; whole circumference; perimeter