竟
jìng HSK4

actually

竟 jìng
eventually adverb
eventually; in the end; after all; finally
unexpectedly adverb
unexpectedly; to one's surprise; actually; to go so far as to

有两三分钟竟没有人说话。

yǒu liǎng sān fēn zhōng jìng méi​yǒu rén shuō huà.

For two or three minutes, no one spoke.

whole
(bound form) throughout; the whole; entire; all
to finish
(bound form) to finish; to complete; to end
limit
(literary) frontier; border; limit; boundary
surname
a Chinese surname
to investigate
(literary) to investigate thoroughly; to go into the matter to the end
directly
directly; straight; without hesitation

Cross-References

Synonym

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Frequency
Character
Written text
706th most common 274.1 per million
Movie subtitles
944th most common 115.8 per million appears in 47% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
12.5 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
68.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+7ADF

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)