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究竟

jiū jìng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

究竟 (jiū jìng) means "on earth; exactly (used in questions to press for an answer)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 究竟 means

1. to go to the bottom of a matter
2. after all
3. when all is said and done
4. (in an interrogative sentence) finally
5. outcome
6. result

The characters in 究竟

• 究jiūafter all; to investigate; to study carefully
• 竟jìngunexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to

Example sentences

• 究竟谁要负责？
  Who exactly is responsible?
• 汤姆究竟在做什么？
  Tāngmǔ jiūjìng zài zuò shénme?
  What exactly does Tom do?
• 汤姆究竟在做什幺？
  What exactly does Tom do?
• 那里究竟发生了什么事？
  Nàli jiūjìng fāshēng le shénme shì?
  What exactly happened there?
• 汤姆和玛丽究竟在计划做什么？
  Tāngmǔ hé Mǎlì jiūjìng zài jìhuà zuò shénme?
  What exactly are Tom and Mary planning to do?
• 汤姆和玛丽究竟在计划做什幺？
  What exactly are Tom and Mary planning to do?

Words containing 究竟

• 一探究竟yī tàn jiū jìngto check out; to investigate

Where 究竟 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Modal & certainty adverbs (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiū jìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.