Character Points - Group 竟 (jìng)
Motivated by Lesson: C0799 Registering with the Police Station
Taken from character: 境
Taken from word: 入境 (enter a country)
境
Pron: jìng
Main radical: 土
Frequency: 582
Meaning: border, place, condition, boundary, circumstances, territory
Examples: 边境 (frontier, border), 入境 (enter a country), 出境 (leave a country), 境内 (within a country's borders), 境外 (outside a country), 过境 (transit) , 环境 (environment, circumstances, situation), 环境污染 (environmental pollution), 语境 (context)
竟
Pron: jìng
Main radical: 立
Frequency: 706
Meaning: unexpectedly, actually, to go so far as to, indeed
Examples: 毕竟(after all, all in all, when all is said and done), 究竟 (after all, actually, outcome, result), 竟然 (unexpectedly)
镜 ( 鏡 )
Pron: jìng
Main radical: 钅
Frequency: 1251
Meaning: mirror
Examples: 镜子 (mirror), 镜头 (camera shot in a movie, etc., scene), 眼镜 (glasses, spectacles), 隐形眼镜 (contact lens), 望远镜 (telescope)
憬
Pron: jǐng
Main radical: 忄
Frequency: 3693
Meaning: to rouse, to awake, to become conscious
獍
Pron: jìng
Main radical: 犭
Frequency: 6004
Meaning: a mythical animal that eats its mother when it is born; Manchurian tiger
燝
Pron: zhǔ
Main radical: 火
Frequency: rare
Meaning: (old, used in names)
璄
Pron: jǐng, yǐng
Main radical: 王
Frequency: rare
Meaning: luster of gem
Tags: character points, 境, 竟,
Posted by henning July 17, 2008 in the Group Character Points.
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