jiù
adverb HSK 1 #13

Meanings

  1. 1 then
  2. 2 just
  3. 3 precisely
  4. 4 as soon as

Examples

Wǒ chī le fàn jiù qù.
I'll go as soon as I finish eating.
Tā jiù shì wǒ de lǎoshī.
He is precisely my teacher.
Wǒmen wǔ diǎn jiù dào le.
We arrived as early as five o'clock.

Tips

grammar
is one of the most versatile Chinese words. Its core meaning is 'close/soon/right away,' and from that it gets meanings like 'then,' 'just,' 'precisely,' and 'as early as.'
mistakes
and are opposites: implies something happened sooner than expected, while implies it happened later than expected.

Stroke Order

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