gēng

continue

Components
庚 sound component

  Sound component

gēng

  

7th heavenly stem

贝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

shell

Evolution

赓 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
赓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
赓 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
赓 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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gēng

continue; to continue (as a song)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3803rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+8D53


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