终
zhōng HSK3

end

终 (終) zhōng
eventually adverb
in the end; finally; after all

只要努力，梦想终会实现。

zhǐ​yào nǔ​lì, mèng​xiǎng zhōng huì shí​xiàn.

As long as you work hard, your dreams will eventually come true.

end adverb
to finish, conclude, or come to a completion

那场激烈的学术争论最终以双方握手言和而终。

nà cháng jī​liè de xué​shù zhēng​lùn zuì​zhōng yǐ shuāng​fāng wò​shǒu​yán​hé ér zhōng.

The fierce academic debate finally ended with both sides shaking hands and making peace.

final noun
the terminal or last part of a sequence or distance

在漫长旅途之终，我们终于见到了大海。

zài màn​cháng lǚ​tú zhī zhōng, wǒ​men zhōng​yú jiàn​dào le dà​hǎi.

At the end of the long journey, we finally saw the sea.

whole idiom
the entire duration of a period from beginning to end

他终其一生都在为寻找失散的亲人而努力。

tā zhōng qí​yī​shēng dōu zài wèi xún​zhǎo shī​sàn de qīn​rén ér nǔ​lì.

He spent his entire life trying to find his lost relatives.

Frequency
Character
Written text
558th most common 374.8 per million
Movie subtitles
598th most common 237.3 per million appears in 71% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
15.1 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
35.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Traditional
終
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+7EC8

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