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繼

繼

See also: 继

Translingual

Traditional 繼
Shinjitai 継
Simplified 继

Han character

繼 (radical 120 糸+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 女火女女戈 (VFVVI), four-corner 22913, composition ⿰糹㡭)

References

  • KangXi: page 941, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27997
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1381, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3464, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+7E7C

Chinese

trad. 繼
simp. 继
alt. forms 継

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (繼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
繼 *keːɡs
檵 *keːɡs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *keːɡs) : semantic 糸 ‎(“rope”) + phonetic 㡭.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 繼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古詣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /keiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /keiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɛjH/
Li
Rong		 /keiH/
Wang
Li		 /kieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 繼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤ[e]-s/
English continue

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 繼
Reading # 1/1
No. 5859
Phonetic
component		 繼
Rime
group		 賜
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 計
Old
Chinese		 /*keːɡs/

Definitions

繼

  1. to continue; to maintain; to carry on

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

繼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 継)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

繼 • ‎(gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

繼 (kế)

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