heavy, important, esteem, respect, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold
重 centers on the idea of weight and significance: something physically heavy, metaphorically important, or accumulated in layers. The senses of heaping up, piling, and folding grow naturally from the image of stacked weight, while esteem and respect are social extensions of treating something as weighty.
重 originally depicted a person carrying a heavy load, with the early form showing a figure bent under weight. Over time it simplified to the modern stacked structure, which still suggests layers and heaviness.
The character looks like stacked layers: the top ノ and 一 over 日 over 里, like heavy boxes piled up. That weight makes it important and respected.
For ジュウ, imagine a heavy jewel (ジュウ) pressing down on a pile of boxes: jewel -> ジュウ, and its weight makes the stack important.
important; essential; significant; major; key; principal
heavy; weighty
(body) weight
precious; valuable
regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on
weight
careful; cautious; prudent; discreet; deliberate
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
respect; esteem; regard
gravity; gravitation; gravitational pull
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another
duplication; repetition; overlapping; redundancy; restoration
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to put on top of another
pile; accumulation
serious illness
multiple; multiplex
strict; severe; stringent; rigorous; rigid; firm; strong; secure
convenient; useful; handy; helpful
severe (illness, disability, etc.); serious
important point; emphasis; stress; importance; priority
weight
serious wound; serious injury
heavy; weighty
centre of gravity (center)
(company) director; executive; top management
specific gravity; relative density
profound; deep; grave; solid; dignified; stately; solemn; composed; substantial; massive
importance; emphasis; stress
to respect; to honor; to honour; to esteem; to prize
stone weight (as used on pickle-tub covers)
serious condition; critical condition
leader; authority; mainstay
load; heavy burden; encumbrance; heavy freight; heavy responsibility
strong pressure; heavy pressure
prioritized; focused; concentrated; predominant
polite; courteous; hospitable
to honor; to honour; to respect; to esteem; to prize
weighting (in averaging); aggravation
serious illness
jūbako; multi-tiered food box
attaching too much importance to; placing disproportionate emphasis on; making too much of
ninefold
to pile up; to accumulate
multistoried; multilayered
prizing; valuing highly; esteeming
heavy oil; fuel oil
heavy (feeling, etc.); gloomy (weather, etc.); oppressive (atmosphere, etc.); stifling; strained
heavy responsibility
double-flowered cherry tree; double cherry blossoms
eightfold; octuple
heavy industry
instrumental duet; instrumental duo
instrumental quartet
to get heavy
one layer; single layer
double; two-fold; two layers; duplex
very important point
weightlessness; zero gravity
valuable article; valuables
weight
superposition
heavy additional tax(ation)
importance; gravity
important cultural property; important cultural asset
regarding highly; attaching importance to