继 繼
继繼 in English
- to continue / to follow after / to go on with / to succeed / to inherit / then / afterwards
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 繼, the traditional character: 继 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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John 继承了一大笔财产。
John inherited a large fortune.
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不管我跟她说了多少次，她还是继续犯同样的错误。
No matter how often I tell her, she keeps making the same mistake.
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他因为太疲劳而无法继续前进。
He was too tired to go any further.
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他继承了他父亲的事业。
He took over his father's business.
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他继承了他父亲的财产。
He succeeded to his father's property.
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他脚受伤了，不能再继续踢足球。
He hurt his foot, he can't play football anymore.
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他虽然很累，但是也继续工作。
Even though he was tired, he went on with his work.