就

就 in English

jiù adverb, preposition HSK 2: (after a suppositional clause) in that case / then / (after a clause of action) as soon as / immediately after / (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely / nothing else but / simply / just / precisely / exactly / only / as little as / as much as / as many as / to approach / to move towards / to undertake / to engage in / (often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to / concerning / (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

我回来就解释给你听怎么用。

I'll explain to you how to use it when I come back.
Alice从上周日起就感冒了。

Alice has had a cold since last Sunday.
Ben学会了不用火柴就能生火。

Ben learned to make a fire without matches.
Jane 又胖、又没礼貌、又烟不离手，可是 Ken 却觉得她可爱、动人，所谓「爱情是盲目的」，大概就是这个意思了吧。

Jane is fat and rude, and smokes too much. However, Ken thinks she's lovely and charming. That's why they say love is blind.
Kent生来就是个领导人。

Kent is a born leader.
一个世纪就是一百年。

A century is one hundred years.
一份我们不喜欢的工作就是。。。一份工作。

A job that you don't love is... a job.