(jiū) - investigate, look into (bound) in Mandarin
jiūTraditional: 究
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Translation
investigate, look into (bound)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the cave radical 穴 gives the meaning of probing to the bottom of a hole, hence to investigate, and 九 (jiǔ) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 穴 (cave radical) + 九 (jiǔ, phonetic)
Stroke order
究
Examples
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They are studying the methods.
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What on earth happened?
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This matter must be investigated.
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He is researching new technology.
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Who exactly did it?
究 (jiū) is a bound morpheme meaning investigate, the second half of 研究 (yánjiū) and the head of 究竟 (jiūjìng, after all).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 究.
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