Meaning
周 (しゅう, shuu) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “circuit, lap, circumference, vicinity, Chou (dynasty)”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
この 周辺には 大学が 多い。
There are a lot of universities in this area.
周遊券は便利な上、経済的でもある。
Excursion tickets are convenient; on top of that, they are also economical.
便利でお得な周遊券をご利用下さい。
Please use excursion tickets, which are convenient and economical.
本校の五十周年を記念し、祝賀パーティーを開きます。
Commemorating this school's fiftieth anniversary, we are going to have a celebration party.
どこが入り口やら分からずビルの周りを何度も回った。
Not being able to figure out where the entrance was, I walked around the building several times.
五周目からは 林先生がこのクラスをお教えになります。
From the fifth week on Mr. Hayashi will teach this class.
父は 腰を痛めているので、家の周りを散歩するのがやっとです。
My father is suffering from pain in the lower back, and he can barely walk around the house.
彼女は周囲の人の批判をものともせず、自分の信じる道を進んだ。
Ignoring criticism from the people around her, she proceeded on the path she believed in.
彼はその恋を自身の最後の恋と感じて、周囲の警告をよそにのめり込んでいった。
Feeling that it would be his last chance for love, he ignored the warnings of those around him, and allowed himself to get deeply involved.
周りの人が助けてくれるからと言って、いつまでも人にばかり頼ってはいられない。
Just because the people around me have helped me out in the past, I can't depend on others endlessly.
24年の苦悩と空白の後、ついに実現した家族との再会に、周囲の者も涙を禁じ得なかった。
(Seeing) the family reunited, an occasion that finally became reality after twenty-four years of agony and separation, people around them couldn't help but cry, too.
世界一周と言うからには、経度の基準点であるグリニッジ天文台から出発しおうと決め込んだ。
Because I was going to travel around the world, I decided to start my trip from London's Greenwich Observatory, which is the base point of longitude.