unexpectedly / actually / to go so far as to / indeed

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Jack in the Box.

Sun Wukong tells Joan of Arc to turn the handle of his Jack in the Box in the engine's bathroom. She does so and after turning for a bit a clown with a loudspeaker in each hand jumps out and surprises Joan of Arc. Unexpectedly, the loudspeakers play deafening loud unholy metal.

竟 character breakdown

variant of 人[ren2] / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc
child / son

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: "son" (儿) sounds similar to "Sun" like in "Sun Wu Kong", so it's gonna be represented by the monkey king. Albert Einstein (Ø-) and Sun Wu Kong (儿) are fighting in the space station's kitchen (-Ø2). Their weapons: Albert Einstein has a shovel (乚), and Sun Wu Kong has a banana (丿).
non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final
to stand / to set up / to establish / to lay down / to draw up / at once / immediately

= + : Li Qing Zhao hides some weed in a vase in the space station's bathroom. To get the weed there, she transports it under her beret.
to see / to meet / to appear (to be sth) / to interview / opinion / view

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) set up a surveillance camera (mnemonic symbol for 见) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). With its help, she can see Sun Wu Kong (儿) stapling (儿) his hat to his head.
to appear / also written 現|现[xian4]
sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a loudspeaker.

= + : Maud Younger and the Sun opened a pop-up store in front of the encampment. They sell vases and advertise them using loudspeakers, playing loud music and dancing to it.

Characters with 竟 as component

border / place / condition / boundary / circumstances / territory

= + : Joan of Arc wants to start her own kingdom and starts with claiming her own territory in the engine's bathroom. She created some walls out of mud but because she has no money to pay, she has a very inexpensive border control consisting of Jacks in their boxes.
mirror / lens

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) asks the mirror (镜) inside of the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) what her fate will be. The mirror shows her a Jack in the box (竟) stabbing her with a golden harpoon (钅). Joan of Arc instantly realizes that this is an omen telling her to beware of the king of England.
a mythical animal that eats its mother

Words with 竟

a really determined person will find a solution (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way

Sentences with 竟