xù
continue
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 𧸇 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 續
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to continue | ||
to continue | ||
continuous | ||
procedure | ||
to continue |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*sə.lok | zjowk | xù | continue |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 79.8654% of movies
441st most common character in movies
552nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E8C |
Shuowen | “續,連也。从糸,賣聲。賡,古文續从庚、貝。” |
Sources
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