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结局

jiéjú

ending; outcome

A person contentedly closes a picture book with a sunrise on the last page
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Characters in this word

结 jié

Strokes
9
Radical
纟 — silk
Made of
纟 silk 吉 lucky, propitious, good
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

局 jú

Strokes
7
Radical
尸 — body, corpse
Made of
尺 ruler, tape-measure 口 mouth
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 这场并购的结局并不意外,因为双方从一开始就缺乏互信。 Zhè chǎng bìnggòu de jiéjú bìng bù yìwài, yīnwèi shuāngfāng cóng yì kāishǐ jiù quēfá hùxìn. The outcome of this merger was not surprising, because the two sides lacked mutual trust from the very beginning.
  • 这个故事的结局让大家都很意外。 Zhège gùshi de jiéjú ràng dàjiā dōu hěn yìwài. The ending of this story surprised everyone.
  • 我喜欢圆满的结局,不喜欢悲伤的。 Wǒ xǐhuan yuánmǎn de jiéjú, bù xǐhuan bēishāng de. I like happy endings and don't like sad ones.

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