Home告终
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

告终

gàozhōng

to end

IN A VIDEO告终

See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.

DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to end

02

to reach an end

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 告终 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 告终 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

小说以女主角的死告终。xiǎo shuō yǐ nǚ zhǔ jué de sǐ gào zhōng。

The novel ends with the heroine's death.

他去年试过戒烟,但却以失败告终。tā qù nián shì guò jiè yān, dàn què yǐ shī bài gào zhōng。

He tried to give up smoking last year, but it was in vain.

对于这个棘手的问题,无论我尝试多少次,结果都会以失败告终。duì yú zhè ge jí shǒu de wèn tí, wú lùn wǒ cháng shì duō shǎo cì, jié guǒ dū huì yǐ shī bài gào zhōng。

Regardless how many times I try to solve this nasty problem, I always end up failing.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 告终.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 告终.

Directly before

  • 失败告终3
  • 死告终1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 告终

What does 告终 mean in Chinese?

告终 (gàozhōng) means to end.

How do you pronounce 告终?

告终 is pronounced gàozhōng.

Is 告终 an HSK word?

告终 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

SEE IT IN CONTEXT

Turn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.

Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.

Upload a video