継

Simplified from 繼 (㡭 → ⿺𠃊米)

継 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女火女火木 (VFVFD), composition ⿰糹⿺𠃊米)

1. continue, maintain, carry on

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 926, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27531
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3407, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7D99

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03188-004

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 繼)

1. to acquire by birthright
2. to follow in someone's footsteps or position
3. (clothing) patch
4. to be grafted into a tree

• Go-on: け (ke, 継)
• Kan-on: けい (kei, 継)
• Kun: つぎ (tsugi, 継ぎ)、つぐ (tsugu, 継ぐ, Jōyō)、つぐ (tsugu, 継)、つなぎ (tsunagi, 継)、つなぐ (tsunagu, 継)、まま (mama, 継)
• Nanori: つぎ (tsugi, 継)、つね (tsune, 継)、ひで (hide, 継)

連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 継(つ)ぐ (tsugu, “to connect, to mend, to succeed”).

• (Tokyo) つぎ [tsùgí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨɡʲi]

継(つぎ) • (tsugi) 

1. the joining of things together, a join
2. (by extension) patching, repairing a tear in cloth by sewing another piece of fabric over
3. 嗣: heir, successor
4. (poetry) short for 継歌 (tsugi-uta, “sequential poem composition on a theme”)
5. (go) a connection, a move which supplements a cut point

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ma̠ma̠]

継(まま) • (mama) 

1. stepmother; state of being a stepmother

継(まま) • (mama-) 

1. step-; half- (related through only one parent)

   継(まま)子(こ) ― mamako ― stepchild

継 • (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune–Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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