| Chinese Text Project |
| 終 U+7D42 |  Seal script |  Jianbo | 夊 Semantic variant | 终 Simplified character | 𠔾 Semantic variant | 𡦿 Semantic variant | 𢍐 Semantic variant | 𣈩 Semantic variant | 𣊂 Semantic variant | 𣧩 Semantic variant | 𤽘 Semantic variant | 𤽬 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 糸+ 5 strokes = 11 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.24#33 Kangxi: p.921#01 Cihai: p.1039r4c06 GSR: 1002.e Hanyu: v5,p3384#05 |
| Composition: | Left: 糹, right: 冬. Component of: 𡈡 𢴋 𤍑 蔠 䈺 𨄿 𧈆 |
| Mandarin: | zhōng ㄓㄨㄥ |
| Cantonese: | zung1 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *jiung |
| Shuowen: | 《糸部》終：絿絲也。从糸冬聲。 |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·上平聲·東·終》終：極也，窮也，竟也，又姓漢有濟南終軍又漢複姓二氏東觀漢記有終利恭何氏姓苑云今下邳人也，左傳殷人七族有終葵氏。職戎切，十五。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·糸部·五》終：〔古文〕𣊂𤽘𣧩𠔾𡦿𢍐𣈩𤽬夊《廣韻》職戎切《集韻》《韻會》之戎切，𠀤音螽。《說文》絿絲也。又《玉篇》極也，窮也。《集韻》一曰盡也。《易·繫辭》《易》之爲書也，原始要終。《書·仲虺之誥》愼厥終，惟其始。《詩·大雅》高朗令終。又《禮·檀弓》君子曰終，小人曰死。又《左傳·文元年》先王之正，時也。履端于始，舉正于中，歸餘于終。《疏》歸其餘，分置于終末。言於終末乃置閏也。又《左傳·襄九年》十二年矣，是謂一終，一星終也。又《爾雅·釋天》月在壬曰終。又《前漢·𠛬法志》地方一里爲井，井十爲通，通十爲成，成方十里，成十爲終。又姓。《左傳·定四年》殷民七族，有終葵氏。《史記·秦本紀》秦之先爲嬴姓，其後分封，以國爲姓，有終黎氏。《前漢·終軍傳》終軍，字子雲，濟南人也。又《韻補》叶諸仍切。《周易·坤·文言》以終叶成。又《韻補》叶諸良切。《陳琳·迷迭香賦》竭歡慶於夙夜兮，雖幽翳而彌彰。事罔隆而不殺兮，亦無始而不終。 |
| Fanqie: | 職戎 (《廣韻·上平聲·東·終》) |
| Unihan definition: | end; finally, in the end |
Example usage
| 《論語·學而》: | 曾子曰：「慎終追遠，民德歸厚矣。」 |
| The philosopher Zeng said, "Let there be a careful attention to perform the funeral rites to parents, and let them be followed when long gone with the ceremonies of sacrifice - then the virtue of the people will resume its proper excellence." | |
| 《孟子·盡心上》: | 孟子曰：「行之而不著焉，習矣而不察焉，終身由之而不知其道者，眾也。」 |
| Mencius said, 'To act without understanding, and to do so habitually without examination, pursuing the proper path all the life without knowing its nature - this is the way of multitudes.' | |
| 《禮記·服問》: | 終殤之月算，而反三年之葛。 |
| Assuming it when they had completed the months of these intervening rites. | |
| 《孝經·喪親》: | 喪不過三年，示民有終也。 |
| The period of mourning does not go beyond three years, to show the people that it must have an end. | |
| 《揚子法言·序》: | 君子純終領聞，蠢迪撿押，旁開聖則，譔《君子》。 |
| The junzi is pure to the end and earns a fine reputation. His actions follow standards and norms, and he completely develops the principles of the sage. Thus, I have written "The Junzi." | |
| 《墨子·親士》: | 是故君子自難而易彼，眾人自易而難彼，君子進不敗其志，內究其情，雖雜庸民，終無怨心，彼有自信者也 |
| Therefore the superior man is strict with one's self but lenient with others (in matters of conduct) while the multitude are lenient with themselves but strict with others. The superior man carries out his ambitions successfully in action and studies the situation when he is at leisure. Even when he is taken as a mediocre individual he feels no dissatisfaction. This is because he has self-confidence. | |
| 《莊子·齊物論》: | 終身役役而不見其成功，苶然疲役而不知其所歸，可不哀邪！ |
| To be constantly toiling all one's lifetime, without seeing the fruit of one's labour, and to be weary and worn out with his labour, without knowing where he is going to - is it not a deplorable case? | |
| 《道德經》: | 希言自然，故飄風不終朝，驟雨不終日。 |
| Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. | |
| 《商君書·開塞》: | 夫正民者：以其所惡，必終其所好。 |
| Indeed, in making the people correct, one always attains what they like by means of what they dislike. | |
| 《荀子·大略》: | 今夫亡箴者，終日求之而不得。 |
| 《說苑·脩文》: | 乃飭射更席以為上客，終日問禮 |
| 《春秋繁露·玉杯》: | 雖從俗而不能終，猶宜未平於心。 |
| 《韓詩外傳·卷二》: | 傳曰：孔子遭齊程本子於郯之間，傾蓋而語，終日，有間，顧子路曰：「由，東帛十匹，以贈先生。」 |
| 《大戴禮記·禮三本》: | 凡禮始於脫，成於文，終於隆。 |
| 《白虎通德論·爵》: | 緣終始之義，一年不可有二君也。 |
| 《新書·脩政語下》: | 政曰：為人下者敬而肅，為人上者恭而仁，為人君者敬士愛民，以終其身，此道之要也。 |
| 《新序·善謀》: | 寡人未之許，又曰寡人過，然則從終不可邪？ |
| 《中論·治學》: | 故君子之於學也，其不懈，猶上天之動，猶日月之行，終身亹亹，沒而後已 |
| 《孔子家語·五儀解》: | 孔子曰：「所謂庸人者，心不存慎終之規，口不吐訓格之言，不擇賢以托其身，不力行以自定。」 |
| 《潛夫論·讚學》: | 是以「君子終日乾乾，進德脩業者」，非直為博己而已也，蓋乃思述祖考之令問，而以顯父母也 |
| 《論衡·命義》: | 行惡者禍隨而至，而盜跖、莊蹻，橫行天下，聚黨數千，攻奪人物，斷斬人身，無道甚矣，宜遇其禍，乃以壽終。 |
| 《太玄經·礥》: | 次三，赤子扶扶，元貞有終。 |
| 《風俗通義·皇霸》: | 是以上述三皇，下記六國，備其終始曰《皇霸》。 |
| 《孔叢子·廣言》: | 末、没，終也。 |
| 《申鑒·政體》: | 一曰不知，二曰不進，三曰不任，四曰不終，五曰以小怨棄大德，六曰以小過黜大功，七曰以小失掩大美，八曰以奸訐傷忠正，九曰以邪說亂正度，十曰以讒嫉廢賢能。 |
| 《忠經·天地神明章》: | 一於其國，忠之終也。 |
| 《素書·求人之志章》: | 孜孜淑淑，所以保終。 |
| 《新語·辨惑》: | 於是齊人懼然而恐，君臣易操，不安其故行，乃歸魯四邑之侵地，終無乘魯之心，鄰□振動，人懷嚮魯之意，強國驕君，莫不恐懼，邪臣佞人，變行易慮，天下之政，□□而折中。 |
| 《獨斷·卷下》: | 宗廟之制：古學以為人君之居，前有朝，後有寢，終則前制廟以象朝，後制寢以象寢，廟以藏主，列昭穆。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·獨斷》: | 冬至陽氣始，起，麋鹿解角，故寢兵鼓，身欲寧，志欲靜，不聽事，送迎五日，臘者，歲終大祭，縱吏民宴飲，非迎氣，故但送不迎。 |
| 《列子·天瑞》: | 往復，其際不可終。 |
| 《鶡冠子·天則》: | 彼天地之以無極者，以守度量，而不可濫，日不踰辰，月宿其列，當名服事，星守弗去，弦望晦朔，終始相巡，踰年累歲，用不縵縵，此天之所柄以臨斗者也。 |
| 《文子·道原》: | 是故能天運地墆，輪轉而無廢，水流而不止，與物終始。 |
| 《文始真經·一宇》: | 關尹子曰：「一陶能作萬器，終無有一器能作陶者，能害陶者。」 |
| 《列仙傳·方回》: | 時人言，得回一丸泥塗門，戶終不可開。 |
| 《鬻子》: | 政者、衛也，始終之謂衛。 |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 以其不求生，故能長生不終也。 |
| 《韓非子·初見秦》: | 是故兵終身暴露於外，士民疲病於內，霸王之名不成，此固以失霸王之道三矣。 |
| 《管子·輕重己》: | 犧牲以彘，發號出令曰：「罰而勿賞，奪而勿予，罪獄誅而勿生，終歲之罪，毋有所赦，作衍牛馬之實在野者王」，天子之秋計也。 |
| 《公孫龍子·跡府》: | 於是尹文曰：『使此人廣眾大庭之中，見侵侮而終不敢鬬，王將以為臣乎？』 |
| 《孫子兵法·兵勢》: | 故善出奇者，無窮如天地，不竭如江河，終而復始，日月是也。 |
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