即 - Mandarin word #5277

即

jí

Traditional: 即

#5277 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

namely, that is to say; immediately (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

即

雨yǔ。

Even if it rains I will still go.

，。

Even if he does not come, we will start anyway.

立lì。

He answered the question immediately.

复fù。

Please reply at once.

。

Success is right in front of us.

即 (jí) is a bound morpheme meaning namely or immediately; it heads the conjunction 即使 (jíshǐ), even if.

即使

even if, even though

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 即.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 106.