繼

See also 继, and 継

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 糸 (“rope”) + phonetic 㡭

Han character

繼 (radical 120 糸+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 女火女女戈 (VFVVI), four-corner 2291₃, composition ⿰糹㡭)

1. continue, maintain, carry on

References

• KangXi: page 941, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27997
• Dae Jaweon: page 1381, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3464, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7E7C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

繼 (simplified 继, jyutping gai3, Yale gai3)

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Japanese

Kanji

繼

Readings

• On: けい (kei)
• Kun: つぐ (tsugu)

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Korean

Hanja

繼 (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

繼 (simplified 继, pinyin bú (bu2), fú (fu2), jì (ji4), Wade-Giles pu², fu², chi⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

繼 (kế)