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即

jí
adverb HSK 7-9 #2,586

Meanings

  1. 1 namely; that is
  2. 2 prompt; at once; immediately
  3. 3 even if; even though

Examples

请即回复。
Qǐng jí huífù.
Please reply immediately.
即使下雨，我也会去。
Jíshǐ xiàyǔ, wǒ yě huì qù.
Even if it rains, I will still go.
立即出发！
Lìjí chūfā!
Set off at once!

Tips

usage
即使 means 'even if'; 立即 means 'immediately'; 即将 means 'about to.'

Components

radical
卩 jié
kneeling person; seal
Kneeling-person radical on the right — the indexing component. 卩 depicts a person crouched on the heels, the body posture of someone reaching for food in 即. The same radical organises 印 (seal/print, where a hand presses down on a kneeler), 卯, and 卸 — all involving controlled bodily positions.
semantic
皀 jí
food vessel (archaic, fused form)
Left side — a fused, contracted form of 皀 'food in a vessel' (standalone 7 strokes, here squeezed to 5). The original picture is a covered pot of grain. 即 shows a kneeling person (right) drawing right up to that pot — the literal scene of 'approaching to eat', which gave the abstract reading 'right now, immediately, namely'.

Stroke Order

即 jí