继
Meaning
jì ji4
- to continue
- to follow after
- to go on with
- to succeed
- to inherit
- then
- afterwards
Example sentences
- Bush followed Reagan as president.
HSK words with 继
- 继续jìxùto continue
- 继承jìchéngto inherit
- 相继xiāngjìin succession
- 继而jìérthen
- 继父jìfùstepfather
- 继母jìmǔstepmother
- 夜以继日yèyǐjìrìnight and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort
- 前赴后继qiánfùhòujìto advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom)
- 继往开来jìwǎngkāiláito follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition