竟
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unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,017 U+7ADF
How 竟 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person 儿 finishing a musical piece 音
How to remember it
unexpectedly · Heisig RSH #487
立 standing up + human legs + tongue wagging in the mouth — as a component also called: mirror
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 竟 as their sound component
These characters all use 竟 (jìng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 竟 sound component | jìng | finally, after all, at last; indeed; unexpected |
| 镜 | jìng | mirror, glass; lens, glasses |
| 境 | jìng | boundary, frontier; area, region |
| 獍 | jìng | the Manchurian tiger |
Words containing 竟
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有志者事竟成 | yǒu zhì zhě shì jìng chéng | a really determined person will find a solution (idiom); where there's a will, there's a w… |
| 有志竟成 | yǒu zhì jìng chéng | persevere and you will succeed (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way |
| 未竟之志 | wèi jìng zhī zhì | unfulfilled ambition |
| 一探究竟 | yī tàn jiū jìng | to check out; to investigate |
| 竟日 | jìng rì | (literary) all day long |
| 竟然 | jìng rán | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to g… |
| 未竟 | wèi jìng | unfinished; incomplete |
| 竟陵 | Jìng líng | Jingling, former name of Tianmen 天門|天门, Hubei |
| 究竟 | jiū jìng | to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogativ… |
| 毕竟 | bì jìng | after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis |
| 竟敢 | jìng gǎn | to have the impertinence; to have the cheek to |