继
Ancient forms
3 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
jì ji4
- to continue
- to follow after
- to go on with
- to succeed
- to inherit
- then
- afterwards
Example sentences
- Bush followed Reagan as president.
HSK words with 继
- 继续 jìxù to continue
- 继承 jìchéng to inherit
- 相继 xiāngjì in succession
- 继而 jìér then
- 继父 jìfù stepfather
- 继母 jìmǔ stepmother
- 夜以继日 yèyǐjìrì night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort
- 前赴后继 qiánfùhòujì to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom)
- 继往开来 jìwǎngkāilái to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition