究竟

Pinyin: jiū jìng

after all; exactly

Example sentence

你究竟想说什么?

Nǐ jiūjìng xiǎng shuō shénme?

What exactly are you trying to say?

What 究竟 means

究竟 (jiū jìng) is an Chinese word meaning “after all; exactly”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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