Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- sì
English
- to connect, inherit
- succession (to a title)
- male offspring; son; male heir; male descendant
- descendants, heirs
- to inherit
- soon after
- continuing (a tradition)
- posterity
粵語
- 男性後代
- 冇耐之後
As a component in
Words containing 嗣
- 子嗣zi2 zi6
son
- 繼嗣gai3 zi6
to continue
- 嗣子zi6 zi2
heir
- 嗣後zi6 hau6
from then on
- 後嗣hau6 zi6
heir
- 嗣位zi6 wai6
to succeed to a title
- 嗣響zi6 hoeng2
lit. a following echo
- 嗣國zi6 gwok3
to accede to a throne
- 嗣歲zi6 seoi3
the following year
- 嗣徽zi6 fai1
heritage
- 譚嗣同taam4 zi6 tung4
Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
- 倪嗣沖ngai4 zi6 cung1
Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] during his unsuccessful 1915 bid for Empire