jì
continue
Originally written as 㡭, which depicts a continuous series of silk threads (丝) joined together. The 糹 (silk) component was later added to clarify the meaning.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 繼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to continue | ||
to continue | ||
to inherit | ||
in succession | ||
stepfather |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤ[e]-s | kejH | jì | continue |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 77.7190% of movies
461st most common character in movies
655th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E7C |
Shuowen | “繼,續也。从糸、。一曰反為繼。” |
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