继承
Meaning
jìchéng ji4 cheng2
- to inherit
- to succeed to (the throne etc)
- to carry on (a tradition etc)
Example sentences
- He must succeed to his father's business.
- He succeeded to his father's large property.
- He will come into a large fortune.
- He will succeed to the throne.
Words sharing a character
- 继续jìxùto continue
- 相继xiāngjìin succession
- 继而jìérthen
- 继父jìfùstepfather
- 继母jìmǔstepmother
- 夜以继日yèyǐjìrìnight and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort
- 前赴后继qiánfùhòujìto advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom)
- 继往开来jìwǎngkāiláito follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition
- 承认chéngrènto admit
- 承诺chéngnuòto promise