The Chinese Radical: 周


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Meaning
circumference    周

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
tone/tune, accent, view, harmonize, adjust
diào, tiáo
Left: word / (sound waves out of a mouth ), right: circumference (A framed luck , sets its circumference) [joy = simplification of happy , where the scholar has beans in his mouth and is happy.]
Words in their circumference are a: tone/tune.
JLPT HSK 3
circumference, week, cycle, complete
zhōu
Outside: frame , inside: luck (simplification of , where the scholar has beans in the mouth and is happy)
A framed luck, sets its circumference.
JLPT HSK 5
(light) silk
chóu
Left: thread 纟/, right: circumference (A framed luck , sets its circumference) [joy = simplif. of happy , where the scholar has beans in the mouth and is happy]
(Here "encircle" in the sense of put on clothes) The thread that encircles you is the silk.
JLPT HSK 6
eagle, to engrave, shrewd
diāo
Left: circumference/cycle (A framed luck , sets its circumference.), right: bird
'Cycles' are made by this bird: The eagle.
JLPT HSK 6
dense, crowded, thick, viscosity
chóu
Left: rice plant , right: circumference (A framed luck , sets its circumference.)
Where there are rice plants, the circumference is: densely (populated).
JLPT no HSK
room made of stone
diāo
Left: stone , right: circumference (A framed luck , sets its circumference.)
When stones are in the circumference, the room is made of stones.
JLPT no HSK
withered
diāo
Left: ice , right: circumference (A framed luck , sets its circumference)
Ice has a circumference, that is: withered.

Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning.

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