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

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
King You of Zhou (795-771 BC), last king of Western Zhou 西周[Xi1 Zhou1]
exhaustive / distributed (logic: applies to every instance)
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
King Cheng of Zhou (1055-1021 BC), reigned 1042-1021 BC as the 2nd king of Western Zhou 西周[Xi1 Zhou1], son of King Wu of Zhou 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2]
Zhou the exploiter, archetypal character in short story 半夜雞叫|半夜鸡叫[ban4 ye4 ji1 jiao4]
Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), Song dynasty neo-Confucian scholar
King Wen of Zhou state (c. 1152-1056 BC), reigned c. 1099-1056 BC as king of Zhou state, leading figure in building the subsequent Western Zhou dynasty, father of King Wu of Zhou 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2] the first Zhou dynasty king
Stephen Chow (1962-), Hong Kong actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director, known for his mo lei tau 無厘頭|无厘头[wu2 li2 tou2] movies
one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday) / same as 週歲|周岁[zhou1 sui4]
History of Zhou of the Northern Dynasties, twelfth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Linghu Defen 令狐德棻[Ling2 hu2 De2 fen1] in 636 during Tang Dynasty, 50 scrolls

Sentences with 周

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