surname Zhou / Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC)
to make a circuit / to circle / circle / circumference / lap / cycle / complete / all / all over / thorough / to help financially

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a hula hoop. James II of England (zh) performs in front of the outhouse (ou1): he swings a hula hoop (周), juggles three mandarins (口) and balances a small heap of dirt (土) on his head. He cheated a little bit though, because he stapled the heap of dirt to his wig with a stapler (⺆).
week / weekly / variant of 周[zhou1]

周 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol from the shape of the character: kind of looks like a map.

Zeus (ju) found a secret map (冂) that tells the location of a golden dinosaur bone (丨) in front of the engine ((e)ng1), so he took a plow (㇆) and dug up everything. He actually found a couple of dinosaur bones, but not a golden one.
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
surname Ji / abbr. for Jilin Province 吉林省[Ji2 lin2 Sheng3]
lucky / giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: "Giga" stems from a Greek word for "giant", so I'll represent 吉 by a giant.

= + : The giant just arrived at the space station and is very hungry. In each hand he holds Joan of Arc and the bachelor captive and robs them for their mandarins which he longs for.
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.
Variant of 冂, but the left stroke is 丿, not 丨

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: ⺆ looks like a staple, as used in a stapler.

Zeus (ju) wants to plant bananas (丿) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). He uses a plow (㇆) to dig up the earth and puts the bananas inside. To prevent the bananas from falling down, he staples them down with a stapler (⺆).
surname Ji / abbr. for 吉林[Ji2 lin2] Jilin Province

Characters with 周 as component

week / weekly / variant of 周[zhou1]
dense / crowded / thick / many

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is eating a bowl of cereals (禾) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). His cereals consist of densely (稠) packed tiny hula hoops (周) made from sugar.
to harmonize / to reconcile / to blend / to suit well / to adjust / to regulate / to season (food) / to provoke / to incite

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to calm down and reconcile (调) all the people in the aorta's kitchen (ao2). To this end she climbs on an advertising column (讠) and dances with a hula hoop (周).
to transfer / to move (troops or cadres) / to investigate / to enquire into / accent / view / argument / key (in music) / mode (music) / tune / tone / melody
to carve / to engrave / shrewd / bird of prey

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) is carving (雕) an ice sculpture in front of the aorta (ao1). The ice sculpture is a sparrow (隹) with a hula hoop in his beak (周).
variant of 雕[diao1], to engrave

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) is carving (雕) an ice sculpture in front of the aorta (ao1). The ice sculpture is a sparrow (隹) with a hula hoop in his beak (周).
bird of prey

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) is carving (雕) an ice sculpture in front of the aorta (ao1). The ice sculpture is a sparrow (隹) with a hula hoop in his beak (周).
(light) silk / CL:匹[pi3]

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) and the silk worm (纟) are working together in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2) to produce very light silk (绸). Charlie is extracting its silk thread while the worm is exercising with a hula hoop (周), therefore creating a very light thread.
porgy / pagrus major
rock cave (archaic)
withered

Words with 周

kilocycle (KC), equals to 1,000 Hz
Southern Weekend (newspaper)
York Chow or Chow Yat-ngok (1947-), Hong Kong doctor and politician, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food since 2004
circumference of a circle is proverbially three times its radius
weekday / midweek
Zhou dynasty (1046-221 BC)
Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
thorough / carefully prepared
Zhou Chuanying (1912-1988), Kunqu 崑曲|昆曲[Kun1 qu3] opera actor
Zhou Bo (?-169 BC), military man and politician at the Qin-Han transition, a founding minister of Western Han
prefecture level city in east Henan 河南

Sentences with 周

周 currently does not appear in any sentence.