(jì) - to continue, to follow on (bound) in Mandarin
jìTraditional: 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
继
Examples
。
Please continue.
。
Let's keep working.
。
He carried on telling the story.
领。
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.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 继.
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