竟 — Chinese character
竟
jìng
finally, after all, at last; indeed; unexpected
- Pinyin
- jìng
- Radical
- 180 ⾳ (Sound)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 音 儿
- Formation
- ideographic — A person 儿 finishing a musical piece 音
- Japanese
- 竟 as a kanji
Common words with 竟
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 毕竟 (畢竟) | bì jìng | after all; all in all |
| 竟然 | jìng rán | unexpectedly; to one's surprise |
| 究竟 | jiū jìng | to go to the bottom of a matter; after all |
| 竟敢 | jìng gǎn | to have the impertinence; to have the cheek to |
| 未竟 | wèi jìng | unfinished; incomplete |
| 一探究竟 | yī tàn jiū jìng | to check out; to investigate |
| 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 |
| 竟日 | jìng rì | (literary) all day long |
竟 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.