Kilo Lingo

(zhōng) - end, finally (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

zhōng

Traditional: 终

Line drawing of 终
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Translation

end, finally (bound morpheme)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character: the silk radical 纟gives the meaning (originally the end of a thread) and 冬 (dōng) supplies the sound.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
纟 (silk radical) + 冬 (dōng, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 终

Examples

I have finally finished my homework.

He finally arrived.

We are finally home.

He loved music all his life.

Stay quiet throughout.

终 (zhōng) means end or final; the everyday word is 终于 (zhōngyú), finally or at last.

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 终.

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This word is part of lesson 106.