就 是

jiùshì

conjunctionHSK 3

“Exactly” in Chinese is 就是 (jiùshì).

Meaning

exactly; precisely
only; simply; just
(used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if

Example

人就是人。

People are people.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

jiùHSK 112 strokes(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then shìHSK 19 strokesto be (followed by substantives only)

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