HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Time

周 zhōu “week” in Chinese

Traditional 週

What 周 means

  1. week
  2. weekly
  3. Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC)

How to say 周

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale周zhōu1st tone, high and level

周 in a sentence

  1. 我上周开始学中文了。

    Wǒ shàng zhōu kāishǐ xué Zhōngwén le.

    I started learning Chinese last week.

    Sentence #502851 from Tatoeba

  2. 下周我必须买一些新衣服。

    Xià zhōu wǒ bìxū mǎi yìxiē xīn yīfu.

    I have to buy some new clothes next week.

    Sentence #11020266 from Tatoeba

  3. 这里已经两周没下雨了。

    Zhèlǐ yǐjīng liǎng zhōu méi xiàyǔ le.

    There has been no rain here for the past two weeks.

    Sentence #9961416 from Tatoeba

How 周 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 周 (zhōu) with each of its parts in a different colour
周zhōuto make a circuit
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 土earth · tǔ
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 周

周 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

周 (zhōu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 周 (zhōu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 周

Words with 周

周末zhōumò · weekend周围zhōuwéi · environs周到zhōudào · thoughtful周年zhōunián · anniversary周期zhōuqī · cycle周边zhōubiān · surrounding周密zhōumì · thorough周转zhōuzhuǎn · turnover周折zhōuzhé · twists and turns众所周知zhòngsuǒzhōuzhī · as everyone knows

More words: Time & Dates

过年guònián · to celebrate the Chinese New Year时shí · o’clock小时候xiǎoshíhou · in one’s childhood有时yǒushí · sometimes直到zhídào · until季jì · season不久bùjiǔ · soon好久hǎojiǔ · a long time

FAQs

周 (zhōu) means “week” or “weekly”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it zhōu: zhōu with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 周 is written 週. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 周 from the suggestions. Typing zhou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
周 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.