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就是

jiù shì

HSK 3 · word 1628 of 3,000

Meaning

• exactly; precisely
• only; simply; just
• (used correlatively with 也) even; even if

Example sentence

Characters in 就是

• 就 jiù (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then
• 是 shì to be (followed by substantives only)

就 precisely plus 是, to be. Precisely is, and in speech it also works alone as agreement — exactly so.

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