終

終 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹水卜 (VFHEY), four-corner 2793₃, composition ⿰糹冬)

• 蔠, 䈺, 𢴋, 𤍑, 𨄿, 𧈆, 𡈡

• KangXi: page 921, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27372
• Dae Jaweon: page 1353, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3384, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7D42

Historical forms of the character 終
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Originally a Pictogram (象形) , 夂 (definition 2) – the knot at the end of a cord. Later reformulated as Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjuŋ) : semantic 糹／纟 + phonetic 冬 (OC *tuːŋ).

Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Chepang दोङःसा (doŋʔ‑, “to end; to cease”), Lai [script needed] (doŋ / doʔŋ, “to end”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Wang (1982) derives 冬 (OC *tuːŋ, “winter”) from this word.

終

1. (literary, or in compounds) end; ending; termination
2. (literary, or in compounds) to come to an end

   無果而終／无果而终  ―  wú guǒ ér zhōng  ―  to end without results

3. (literary, or in compounds, euphemistic) to die; to reach the end of life
4. (literary, or in compounds) entire; all
5. (literary, or in compounds) eventually; finally

• (to come to an end):

• (to die):

• (eventually):

• (end): 始 (shǐ)
• (to die):

• “終”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. end, finish

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)^{←しゆ (syu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)^{←しゆう (syuu, historical)}
• Kun: おわる (owaru, 終わる, Jōyō)^{←をはる (wofaru, 終はる, historical)}; おえる (oeru, 終える, Jōyō)^{←をへる (woferu, 終へる, historical)}; しまう (shimau, 終う)^{←しまふ (simafu, 終ふ, historical)}; つい (tsui, 終)^{←つひ (tufi, 終, historical)}; ついに (tsuini, 終に)^{←つひに (tufini, 終に, historical)}; はて (hate, 終)

• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝi]

終(つい) • (tsui) ^{←つひ (tufi)?}

1. end, conclusion

   終(つい)のすみか

   tsui no sumika

   final abode

2. end-of-life, death

From Middle Chinese 終 (MC t͡ɕɨuŋ). Recorded as Middle Korean 죠ᇰ (cyong) (Yale: cyong) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource 終 (eumhun 마칠 종 (machil jong))

1. Hanja form^? of 종 (“end; finish”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

終: Hán Nôm readings: chung, chon, giong, trọn, xông

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