to continue; to go on with; to follow after

HSK 4 #655

Character data

HSK 4
Frequency 655th character
Radical ⽷ (120.7)
Strokes 10
Index # 2153
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

继 jì
  1. 1. to continue
  2. 2. to go on with
  3. 3. to follow after
  4. 4. to inherit
  5. 5. to succeed
  6. 6. then
  7. 7. afterwards

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Words containing 继

Word Meaning
to become adopted as heir
multiport repeater
inheritress
Sun Jihai, Chinese football player
frame relay
no one to carry on one’s work; no successor
Xu Jiyu (1795-1873), Chinese geographer
Qi Jiguang (1528-1588), military leader
work day and night; work late into the night
successor
to continue a family line; heir; posterity
stepdaughter
stepchildren; adopted children
afterwards; later
successor
to follow in sb's steps; to take up sb's mantle
to follow in the steps of one's predecessor
step-parents
to succeed on the throne
stepfamily; (old) stepmother; to marry
to follow in the steps of
to inherit; to succeed; (literary) to carry on
lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom)
frame relay (telecommunications)