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终

zhōng

end

Simplified form of 終. Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 冬 represents the sound.

Components
纟 meaning component

纟  Meaning component

mì, sī

  

silk

纟 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

终 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
终 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
终 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

终 (終) 

zhōng

end; finally, in the end; finish

Most common words with 终
Freq.
Word
Meaning

终于

at last

最终

final

始终

all along

终

end

终点

the end

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 71.4240% of movies

598th most common character in movies

558th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

終

Unicode

U+7EC8


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