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終

zhōng

end

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 冬 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

冬 sound,meaning component

冬  Sound Meaning component

dōng

  

winter

Depicts a rope with knots at both ends

Evolution

終 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
終 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
終 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
終 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
終 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

终 (終) 

zhōng

end; finally, in the end; finish

Most common words with 終
Freq.
Word
Meaning

终于

at last

最终

final

始终

all along

终

end

终点

the end

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tuŋ

tsyuwng

zhōng

end


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 71.4240% of movies

598th most common character in movies

558th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

终

Unicode

U+7D42

Shuowen

“終，絿絲也。从糸，冬聲。，古文終。”


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