Kilo Lingo

(jì) - to continue, to follow on (bound) in Mandarin

Traditional: 继

Line drawing of 继
Coloured illustration of 继
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Translation

to continue, to follow on (bound)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character (traditional 繼): the silk radical 纟evokes joining threads end to end, hence to continue or to follow on.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
纟 (silk radical) + phonetic element (traditional 繼)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 继

Examples

Please continue.

Let's keep working.

He carried on telling the story.

lǐng

He succeeded as the leader of the company.

Everyone, please carry on.

继 (jì) means to continue and is bound, surfacing chiefly in 继续 (jìxù), meaning to carry on.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 继.

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This word is part of lesson 104.