jìng
adverb HSK 7-9 #4,583

Meanings

  1. 1 unexpectedly
  2. 2 actually
  3. 3 to finish

Examples

Jìngrán
unexpectedly; to one's surprise
Jiūjìng
after all; actually

Tips

mistakes
Don't confuse with (jìng, compete) — has no on top

Components

semantic
yīn
sound; tone
Top — pictograph of a tongue inside a mouth with a marker line, depicting sound issuing forth. In it pictures a piece of music playing from start to finish. Indexed under Kangxi #117 (lì) by tradition, since sits buried at the top of rather than as a visibly separate component.
semantic
ér
person; legs
Bottom — a stylised pair of human legs, the standing-figure component. Below it pictures a musician finishing the piece, sound trailing off as the player stops. The compound: a melody played all the way to its end. From that came 'to finish, in the end, ultimately' — the modern senses of .

Filed under radical (lì, #117) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

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