竟 jìng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 立 — to stand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
竟然
jìngrán
unexpectedly
Characters in this word
然 rán
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 灬 — fire
- Made of
- 肰 dog meat 灬 fire
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他竟然来了。 Tā jìngrán lái le. He unexpectedly came.
- 你竟然知道。 Nǐ jìngrán zhīdào. You actually know.
- 她竟然没哭。 Tā jìngrán méi kū. She surprisingly did not cry.