索性 suǒxìng you might as well (do it)
you might as well (do it); simply; just
How to remember 索性: 索 cable + 性 nature = you might as well (do it).
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How it is used
- Adverb: 'might as well just / simply go ahead and' - since things are this way, take the decisive step - 反正睡不着,索性起来工作 (fǎnzhèng shuì bu zháo, suǒxìng qǐlái gōngzuò) can't sleep anyway, so I just got up to work.
- Signals resolving a situation by going all the way with a bolder choice.
- Colloquial-to-neutral; often preceded by a 'since/anyway' clause.