既 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

jì HSK4

already

既 jì

both conjunction: both... (and...); used in the structure 既 jì...又 yòu... or 既 jì...也 yě... to link two properties or actions; 这个方案既简单又有效。

zhège fāng'àn jì jiǎndān yòu yǒuxiào.

This plan is both simple and effective.

since conjunction: since; given that; as; 既已答应了人家，就一定要做到。

jì yǐ dāying le rénjia, jiù yīdìng yào zuòdào.

Since you have promised someone, you must follow through.

Cross-References

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旣 jì

Frequency

Character

Written text: 724th most common 264.6 per million
Movie subtitles: 1,092nd most common 85.9 per million appears in 42% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 28.1 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text: 146.3 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 4
HSK 3.0: Level 4
Strokes: 9
Unicode: U+65E2

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)