继

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

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

rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort

relay station

to relay / to repeat

adoption (e.g. of a nephew as a son) / to inherit

one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave

to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom)

repeater

to have qualified successors to carry on one's undertaking

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

lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom) / fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten

metadata

to become adopted as heir

multiport repeater

inheritress

Sun Jihai (1977-), Chinese footballer, played for Manchester City (2002-2008)

frame relay

see 後繼無人|后继无人[hou4 ji4 wu2 ren2]