即
jí HSK4

promptly

即 jí
even if conjunction
used to connect parts of a sentence to show a hypothetical concession, equivalent to 即使 jí​shǐ
immediately adverb
promptly; at once; indicates that something happens right after something else
at present adverbverb
currently; in the immediate future; happening now
namely verbadverb
to be; to mean; that is; equivalent to 就是 jiù​shì

世界并不是非白即黑。

shì​jiè bìng bù​shì fēi bái jí hēi.

The world is not black and white.

他还认为，就包装材料来说，少即是多。

tā hái rèn​wéi, jiù bāo​zhuāng cái​liào lái​shuō, shǎo jí shì duō.

He also believes less is more when it comes to packaging materials.

prompted by verbadjective
(bound form) inspired by or taking place on the spot, as in an occasion or scene
to approach
(bound form) to reach; to come into contact with; to draw near
to assume
(bound form) to take on a role or position, such as a throne or office
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Same as

Synonym

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
293rd most common 756.9 per million
Movie subtitles
743rd most common 171.1 per million appears in 60% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
27.0 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
246.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5373

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)