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竟

竟

Translingual

Han character

竟 (radical 117 立+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿日竹山 (YTAHU), four-corner 00216, composition ⿱音儿)

  1. finally, after all, at last

References

  • KangXi: page 871, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25757
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1301, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2710, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7ADF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 竟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 竟
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (竟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
滰 *ɡaŋʔ
境 *kraŋʔ
竟 *kraŋs
鏡 *kraŋs
獍 *kraŋs
樈 *ɡraŋ
璄 *qraŋʔ
摬 *qraŋʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 竟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居慶切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiæŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚiaŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiaŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kiajŋH/
Li
Rong		 /kiɐŋH/
Wang
Li		 /kĭɐŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ɐŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 竟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jìng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjængH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]raŋʔ-s/
English end, in the end

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 竟
Reading # 1/1
No. 6869
Phonetic
component		 竟
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 敬
Old
Chinese		 /*kraŋs/

Definitions

竟

  1. surprisingly; unexpectedly

Compounds

  • 一探究竟
  • 一竟
  • 探個究竟／探个究竟
  • 有志竟成
  • 未竟之志
  • 歐陽竟無／欧阳竟无
  • 畢竟／毕竟 (bìjìng)
  • 看個究竟／看个究竟
  • 究竟 (jiūjìng)
  • 窮源竟委／穷源竟委
  • 窮竟／穷竟
  • 竟坐
  • 竟夕
  • 竟夜
  • 竟天
  • 竟敢 (jìnggǎn)
  • 竟日
  • 竟是 (jìngshì)
  • 竟會／竟会
  • 竟然 (jìngrán)
  • 竟爾／竟尔
  • 竟陵八友
  • 竟陵體／竟陵体
  • 終竟／终竟
  • 考竟
  • 芳蘭竟體／芳兰竟体
  • 難竟全功／难竟全功

Japanese

Kanji

竟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

竟 • ‎(gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Vietnamese

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