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讲究

jiǎng jiu

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 講究

讲究 (jiǎng jiu) means "to pay particular attention to". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 讲究 means

1. to pay particular attention to
2. carefully selected for quality
3. tastefully chosen

The characters in 讲究

• 讲jiǎngto speak; to explain; to negotiate
• 究jiūafter all; to investigate; to study carefully

Example sentences

• 她穿衣服很讲究。
  She is particular about what she wears.
• 他穿着上很不讲究。
  Tā chuān zhe shàng hěn bù jiǎngjiu.
  He's very sloppy in his dress.
• 我对食物不是很讲究。
  Wǒ duì shíwù bù shì hěn jiǎngjiu.
  I'm not very particular about food.
• 劳拉很讲究她的服装。
  Láolā hěn jiǎngjiu tā de fúzhuāng.
  Laura is very particular about her clothes.
• 这家饭馆的餐具很讲究
  Zhè jiā fànguǎn de cānjù hěn jiǎngjiu
  This restaurant is particular about cutlery.
• 你看这两件做工要比那些讲究。
  Nǐ kàn zhè liǎng jiàn zuògōng yào bǐ nàxiē jiǎngjiu.
  See how much more carefully made these are compared to those?

Words containing 讲究

• 穿着讲究chuān zhuó jiǎng jiusmart clothes; particular about one's dress

Where 讲究 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Building, Planning & Organizing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiǎng jiu correctly.
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