(zhōng) - end, finally (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
zhōngTraditional: 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
终
Examples
业。
I have finally finished my homework.
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He finally arrived.
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We are finally home.
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He loved music all his life.
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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.
Used in
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