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

surroundings / environment / to encompass
weekly publication
Zhoukou, prefecture-level city in east Henan 河南
Zhoukoudian prehistoric site in Fangshan district 房山區|房山区[Fang2 shan1 qu1], Beijing
King Xuan, eleventh King of Zhou, reigned (828-782 BC)
the Zhou family (household, firm etc) / Jow-Ga Kung Fu - Martial Art
Zhouning county in Ningde 寧德|宁德[Ning2 de2], Fujian
Zhouning county in Ningde 寧德|宁德[Ning2 de2], Fujian
Zhou Xiaochuan (1948-), PRC banker and politician, governor of People's Bank of China 中國人民銀行|中国人民银行[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Yin2 hang2] 2002-2018
prefecture level city in east Henan 河南

Sentences with 周

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