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The character 即 is an ideogrammic compound. Its left component, 皀, depicts a food vessel or a container of food, while the right component, 卩, shows a kneeling person. The composition illustrates someone kneeling down to reach a meal, conveying the original sense of approaching or drawing near. This spatial idea of proximity naturally extended to a temporal sense, leading to its adverbial meaning "immediately" and its use as a conjunction for "even if" or "that is".
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我立即回答。
即使下雨我们也去。
比赛即将开始。
这即是我最后的决定。
成功即意味着新的责任。
公司即将推出即用型产品。
他当即作出了即时的反应。
对于这个复杂问题，非此即彼的判断即显草率。