HSK 5 · Verbs

讲究 jiǎngjiu “to be particular about” in Chinese

Traditional 講究

What 讲究 means

  1. to be particular about
  2. to pay great attention to
  3. exquisite
  4. refined
  5. to pay particular attention to
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • carefully selected for quality
  • tastefully chosen

How to say 讲究

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale讲jiǎng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own究jiuneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

讲究 in a sentence

  1. 我对食物不是很讲究。

    Wǒ duì shíwù bú shì hěn jiǎngjiu.

    I’m not very particular about food.

    Sentence #851510 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 他穿着上很不讲究。

    Tā chuānzhuó shàng hěn bù jiǎngjiu.

    He doesn’t care much about how he dresses.

    Sentence #2455649 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我们老师确实很讲究礼节，不是吗？

    Wǒmen lǎoshī quèshí hěn jiǎngjiu lǐjié, bú shì ma?

    Our teacher is really particular about etiquette, isn’t she?

    Sentence #336424 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 讲究 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 讲 (jiǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
讲jiǎngto speak
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 井well · jǐngSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 井 (jǐng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiǎng.

The character 究 (jiū) with each of its parts in a different colour
究jiuafter all
  • 穴cave · xuéMeaning part
  • 九nine · jiǔSound part

穴 hints at the meaning (cave); 九 (jiǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiu.

How to write 讲究

讲 6 strokes · 究 7 strokes

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讲究 (jiǎngjiu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 讲究 (jiǎngjiu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 讲究

Words with 讲

讲jiǎng · to talk演讲yǎnjiǎng · speech讲座jiǎngzuò · lecture

Words with 究

究竟jiūjìng · to go to the bottom of a matter研究yánjiū · to research追究zhuījiū · to investigate终究zhōngjiū · after all

More words: Common Verbs

记录jìlù · to record捡jiǎn · to pick up建立jiànlì · to establish建设jiànshè · to build交换jiāohuàn · to exchange交际jiāojì · social interaction浇jiāo · to water (plants)教训jiàoxun · a lesson (learnt the hard way)

FAQs

讲究 (jiǎngjiu) means “to be particular about” or “to pay great attention to”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jiǎngjiu: jiǎng with a 3rd tone, then jiu with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 讲究 is written 講究. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiangjiu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 讲究 from the suggestions. Typing jiangjiu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
讲究 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.