Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 3
週 week
- Meaning
- week
- On reading
- シュウ
- Kun reading
- -
Memory hook
The road radical wrapped around 周 (circuit): going round a circuit, and a week comes round again. シュウ. 今週 konshū, this week.
Words that use 週
今週
こんしゅう
this week
週末
しゅうまつ
weekend
How to write 週
Stroke order · 11 strokes
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2
3
4
5
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10
11
- 1. Vertical.
- 2. Horizontal, then turn down, ending in a hook.
- 3. Horizontal.
- 4. Vertical.
- 5. Horizontal.
- 6. Vertical.
- 7. Horizontal, then turn down.
- 8. Horizontal.
- 9. A short dot.
- 10. Horizontal, then turn down, then down to the right.
- 11. Horizontal.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
週 is taught on day 8 of the kanji course, alongside 今 毎, with two writing passes and a short quiz.