竟 (jìng)
unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to
How 竟 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 音 — sound
- Traditional
- 竟
- Simplified
- 竟 (unchanged)
Components
- 音 sound
- 儿 legs
Common words using 竟
- 竟然 jìngrán
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything
- 畢竟 bìjìng
- after all; all in all; when all is said and done
- 究竟 jiūjìng
- after all (when all is said and done); actually; outcome
- 竟敢 jìnggǎn
- to have the impertinence; to have the cheek to
竟 in a sentence
沒想到這麼簡單的問題，他竟然答錯了。
Méi xiǎngdào zhème jiǎndān de wèntí, tā jìngrán dácuò le.
“I didn't expect that he would actually get such a simple question wrong.”
How common is 竟?
竟 is the 705th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 82.9% of all running text.
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