究
jiū HSK4

examine, scrutinize

究 jiū
investigate verb
to study carefully, research, or examine something in depth

关于这起事故的起因，有关部门正在深究。

guān​yú zhè qǐ shì​gù de qǐ​yīn, yǒu​guān bù​mén zhèng​zài shēn jiū.

Relevant departments are conducting an in-depth investigation into the cause of this accident.

after all adverb
ultimately, finally, or in the end

无论你怎么解释，真相终究是瞒不住的。

wú​lùn nǐ zěn​me jiě​shì, zhēn​xiàng zhōng​jiū shì mán bù zhù de.

No matter how you explain it, the truth cannot be hidden forever.

Frequency
Character
Written text
429th most common 508.4 per million
Movie subtitles
864th most common 137.9 per million appears in 46% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.40 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
8.14 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+7A76

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