竟

竟 U+7ADF, 竟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7ADF ← 竞 [U+7ADE] CJK Unified Ideographs 章 → [U+7AE0]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		竟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 竟
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

According to Shuowen, an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 音 (“sound”) + 儿 (“man”) - a man has spoken.

Etymology

Cognate with 境 (OC *kraŋʔ, “boundary”) (Schuelsser, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jìng (jing⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ging²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): kèng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gêng²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jìng
    • Wade–Giles: ching⁴
    • Yale: jìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinq
    • Palladius: цзин (czin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ging²
    • Yale: gíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ging²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ging²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɪŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kèng
    • Tâi-lô: kìng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kexng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiɪŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɪŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɪŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiɪŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɪŋ²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gêng²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kéng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /keŋ⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: kjaengH

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
Baxter	kjaengH
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ging3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]raŋʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kraŋs/

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

(deprecated template usage) 竟

1. to finish; to end
2. finally; after all; at last
3. unexpectedly; to one's surprise; surprisingly
4. whole; entire

Synonyms

• (unexpectedly):

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• 先勿先 (Wu)
• 出乎意料地 (chūhūyìliào de)
• 居然 (jūrán)
• 煞 (Hokkien)
• 硬敢 (Liuzhou)
• 竟然 (jìngrán)

 

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

竟

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. end; final

Readings

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)
• Kan-on: けい (kei)
• Kun: おわる (owaru, 竟わる)、わたる (wataru, 竟る)、ついに (tsuini, 竟に)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
竟
つい Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 竟 – see the following entry.

【終つい】3 [noun] end, conclusion [noun] end-of-life, death Alternative spelling 遂

(This term, 竟, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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Korean

Hanja

竟 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경)

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Vietnamese

Han character

竟: Hán Nôm readings: cánh, cạnh, giạnh

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