to continue / to follow after / to go on with / to succeed / to inherit / then / afterwards

= + + : Joan of Arc (ji) has to watch how a sack of rice (米) falls on the silk worm (纟) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and squeezes the silk worm to death. Joan of Arc, while burying the silk worm with a shovel (乚) under a heap of rice, swears to continue (继) the silk worm's work. She will take over the silk worm's jacket and earthenware bowl (继) and continue (继) its work to build the ultimate cocoon.

继 character breakdown

component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚). Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) shoveling a grave in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
surname Mi
rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sack of rice.

Marilyn Monroe and the mean crocodile celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree inside of the space station. Coincidentally they got each other the same present: each of them is giving the other one a sack of rice.
"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

A silk worm.

Characters with 继 as component

继 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 继

to relay / to repeat
one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave
to have qualified successors to carry on one's undertaking
second wife (of a widower)
Sun Jihai (1977-), Chinese footballer, played for Manchester City (2002-2008)
see 後繼無人|后继无人[hou4 ji4 wu2 ren2]
to become adopted as heir
to have no qualified successors to carry on one's undertaking
Xu Jiyu (1795-1873), Chinese geographer
Qi Jiguang (1528-1588), military leader
to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
to continue / to continue a family line / posterity / heir
stepdaughter / CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2]

Sentences with 继

继 currently does not appear in any sentence.