竟
HSK 7freq #3252
Meanings
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- 1.unexpectedly
- 2.actually
- 3.to go so far as to
- 4.indeed
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Wiktionary
- 1.to finish; to end (literary)
- 2.finally; after all; at last (literary)
- 3.unexpectedly; to one's surprise; surprisingly
- 4.whole; entire
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Etymology
Uncertain. At least three theories exist: According to the version on bronzes and Yu Shengwu (于省吾), 辛 ("chisel to mark prisoners") + 人 ("man"); the character indicates a punishment and, according to Yu Shengwu, it is the original version of 黥. Compare the phonetic component of 接. According to He Linyi (何琳儀), it is the contraction of the character 競. According to Shuowen, it is an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 音 (“sound”) + 儿 (“man”) (originally written as 舌 and 人) - a man has spoken. This interpretation is partly related to 競. Cognate with 境 (OC *kraŋʔ, “boundary”) (Schuelsser, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
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Related words
竟然 unexpectedly究竟 to go to the bottom of a matter毕竟 after all竟敢 to have the impertinence; to have the cheek to竟陵 Jingling, former name of Tianmen 天门, Hubei未竟 unfinished竟日 (literary) all day long未竟之志 unfulfilled ambition一探究竟 to check out有志竟成 persevere and you will succeed (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way有志者事竟成 a really determined person will find a solution (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way