Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- jì
English
- continue, maintain, carry on
- to continue
- (adjective) (of familiar members) Step- (e.g. step father 繼父)
- to succeed; to come after
- to continue; to follow after
- to follow after
- to go on with
- to succeed
- to inherit
- then
- afterwards
粵語
- 隨後；跟住某個人或者某樣嘢之後出現、發生
- 接續上一樣嘢；下一樣
Variants
Words containing 繼
- 繼續gai3 zuk6
to continue; to proceed with; to go on with
- 過繼gwo3 gai3
to adopt
- 繼承gai3 sing4
to inherit
- 相繼soeng1 gai3
in succession
- 繼而gai3 ji4
then
- 繼位gai3 wai6
to succeed to the throne
- 繼母gai3 mou5
stepmother
- 繼任gai3 jam6
to succeed sb in a job
- 繼子gai3 zi2
stepson
- 繼父gai3 fu6
stepfather
- 承繼sing4 gai3
adoption (e.g. of a nephew as a son)
- 繼嗣gai3 zi6
to continue
- 不繼bat1 gai3
something runs out, not enough to support something to go on
- 後繼hau6 gai3
to succeed to sby's job or position; to carry on
- 繼軌gai3 gwai2
to follow in the steps of
- 繼父母gai3 fu6 mou5
step-parents
- 繼子女gai3 zi2 neoi5
stepchildren
- 繼電器gai3 din6 hei3
(electrical) relay
- 難以為繼naan4 ji5 wai4 gai3
(idiom) difficult to carry on; unsustainable
- 繼後gai3 hau6
later
- 出繼ceot1 gai3
to become adopted as heir
- 繼女gai3 neoi5
stepdaughter
- 後繼無人hau6 gai3 mou4 jan4
to have no qualified successors to carry on one's undertaking
- 繼親gai3 can1
stepfamily