Background Cervical cancer (CC) is a common female cancer according to global cancer statistics. The current study was used to investigate the regulatory mechanism of circ_0000069 in CC. Methods The real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to assess circ_0000069, miR-4429, and zinc finger protein of the cerebellum 2 (ZIC2) expression in CC tissues and cells. Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed in CC patients to analyze the relationship between survival time and circ_0000069 expression. The proliferation, apoptosis, cell cycle of CC cells were detected by 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2, 5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazol-3-ium bromide (MTT), colony formation, and flow cytometry analyses, respectively. In addition, western blot assay was employed to show expression levels of apoptosis/cell cycle-related proteins, as well as ZIC2. The migration and invasion of CC cells were assessed by transwell analysis. Possible target miRNAs of circ_0000069, along with the interaction between ZIC2 and miR-4429 were confirmed by pull-down and dual-luciferase reporter assays. Eventually, the functional role of circ_0000069 in vivo was clarified with the xenograft experiment in nude mice. Results Circ_0000069 was overexpressed in CC tissues and cells than controls. Furthermore, the silencing of circ_0000069 inhibited proliferation, migration, and invasion while included apoptosis and cell cycle arrest of CC cells, which was overturned by downregulation of miR-4429. Importantly, ZIC2 was a direct target of miR-4429 in CC cells, and we further confirmed that overexpression of miR-4429 suppressed CC progress by decreasing ZIC2 expression in CC cells. Surely, silencing of circ_0000069 inhibited tumorigenesis in vivo. Conclusion Our current results suggested that circ_0000069 exerted its tumorigenic roles by regulation of proliferation, apoptosis, cell cycle, migration, and invasion of CC cells, supporting that circ_0000069/miR-4429/ZIC2 axis may provide potential prognostic biomarkers for CC.