就

See also jiu

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 京 + phonetic 尤

Han character

就 (radical 43 尢+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜火戈大山 (YFIKU), four-corner 0391₄)

1. just, simply
2. to come, go to
3. to approach, near

References

• KangXi: page 299, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7599
• Dae Jaweon: page 594, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 555, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5C31

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Cantonese

Hanzi

就 (Yale jau6)

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Japanese

Kanji

就 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゅう (shū), じゅ (ju)
• Kun: つく (tsuku)

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Korean

Hanja

就 (hangeul 취, revised chwi, McCune-Reischauer ch'wi)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Adverb

就 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin jiù)

1. at once; then; right away; only
   • John 1.12

     凡接待他的，就是信他名的人，他就赐他们权柄，作神的儿女。

     Fán jiēdaì tāde, jiùshì xìn tā míng de rén, tā jiù cì tāmen quánbǐng, zuò Shén de érnǚ .

     But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

   • Genesis 1.7

     神就造出空气，将空气以下的水，空气以上的水分开了。事就这样成了。

     Shén jiù zàochū kōngqì, jiāng kōngqì yǐxià de shuǐ, kōngqì yǐshàng de shuǐ fēnkāi le. shì jiù zhèyàng chéng le.

     And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Verb

就 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin jiù)

1. to approach; to move towards; to undertake

Hanzi

就 (pinyin jiù (jiu4), Wade-Giles chiu⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

就 (tựu)