Adverb

1. then
   • zhiyao ni nuli jiu hui chenggong de.

   if you work hard then you will succeed.

   • zhongxue biye zhihou ta jiu gongzuo le.

   after graduated from secondary school then she/he went to work.

2. exactly

   Zhongguo yao xiandaihua jiu yao fazhan kexue. "Science must be developed if China wants to modernize."

   yao bǎozhí jiu yao touzi. "if you want to maintain the value of your money, you have to invest."

3. only
   • bu changshi jiu hui yongyuan shibai.

   try no will only lose forever.

Pinyin syllable

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, jiū, jiú, jiǔ, or jiù.

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