竟

jìng

unexpectedly · actually

Radical: 立 Strokes: 11

Structure: Top-middle-bottomFrequency: Common

Same radical

立章童端站竞竖竭竦竣

Same radical

立章童端站竞竖竭竦竣

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Character Decomposition

竟=音+儿

Etymology

A person 儿 finishing a musical piece 音

Meanings

unexpectedly

actually

to go so far as to

indeed

jìng

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Words with 竟 49 total

after all · all in all · when all is said and done · in the final analysis毕竟bì jìng (literary) all day long竟日jìng rì

Idioms with 竟 9 total

unfulfilled ambition未竟之志wèi jìng zhī zhì persevere and you will succeed (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way有志竟成yǒu zhì jìng chéng a really determined person will find a solution (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way有志者事竟成yǒu zhì zhě shì jìng chéng