續

See also: 续 and 続

續	U+7E8C, 續 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E8C

← 纋
[U+7E8B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

纍 →
[U+7E8D]

Translingual

Traditional	續
Shinjitai	続
Simplified	续

Han character

續 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 女火土田金 (VFGWC), four-corner 2498₆, composition ⿰糹賣 or ⿰糹𧶠)

Descendants

続续

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 942, character 40
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28037
Dae Jaweon: page 1382, character 21
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3465, character 7
Unihan data for U+7E8C

Chinese

trad.		續
simp.		续
alternative forms		賡／赓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 續
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (𧶠) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
竇	*l'oːɡs
續	ljoɡs, ljoɡ
覿	*l'juːɡ
黷	*l'oːɡ
讟	*l'oːɡ
殰	*l'oːɡ
讀	*l'oːɡ
櫝	*l'oːɡ
牘	*l'oːɡ
儥	*l'oːɡ
贕	*l'oːɡ
皾	*l'oːɡ
瓄	*l'oːɡ
瀆	*l'oːɡ
豄	*l'oːɡ
韇	*l'oːɡ
嬻	*l'oːɡ
犢	*l'oːɡ
匵	*l'oːɡ
藚	*ljoɡ
襩	*ɦljoɡ
贖	*ɦljoɡ
𧶠	*luɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljoɡs, *ljoɡ) : semantic 糸 (“rope”) + phonetic 𧶠 (OC *luɡ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xù (xu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siu̍k
Eastern Min (BUC): sṳ̆k
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeh⁷ / syeh⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sio̍k

(Teochew, Peng'im): sog⁸
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸zoq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xù
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syù
  - Wade–Giles: hsü⁴
  - Yale: syù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuh
  - Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zuk⁶
  - Yale: juhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊk̚²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siu̍k
  - Hakka Romanization System: xiug
  - Hagfa Pinyim: xiug⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /si̯uk̚⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̆k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /syʔ⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: soeh⁷
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬœʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: syeh⁷
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøʔ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sio̍k
  - Tâi-lô: sio̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siok
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /siɔk̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɔk̚⁴/

Note: sio̍k - literary.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: sog⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: so̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sok̚⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁸zoq
  - MiniDict: zoh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵zoq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zoʔ¹²/

Middle Chinese: zjowk

Rime
Character	續
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	燭 (8)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似足切
Baxter	zjowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ziok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ziok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zuawk̚/
Li Rong	/ziok̚/
Wang Li	/zĭwok̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯wok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zuk⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.lok/

(Zhengzhang): /*ljoɡs/, /*ljoɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	續
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xù
Middle Chinese	‹ zjowk ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lok/
English	continue
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	續	續
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16034	16053
Phonetic component	𧶠	𧶠
Rime group	候	屋
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		續
Old Chinese	/*ljoɡs/	/*ljoɡ/

Definitions

續

Synonyms

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交合 (jiāohé)
交接 (jiāojiē)
嬋媛／婵媛 (chányuán) (literary)
拼 (pīn)
接 (jiē)
接連／接连 (jiēlián)
相接 (xiāngjiē)
相連／相连 (xiānglián)
連／连
連接／连接 (liánjiē)
銜／衔 (xián)
銜接／衔接 (xiánjiē)

(to add): 加 (jiā), 添 (tiān)

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 續 – see 紲 (“to follow on; to continue”). (This character is a variant form of 紲).

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “续”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 269.

Japanese

Shinjitai	続
Kyūjitai	續

Kanji

續

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 続)

Readings

Go-on: ぞく (zoku)
Kan-on: しょく (shoku)^{←しよく (syoku, historical)}
Kun: つづき (tsuzuki, 續)、つづく (tsuzuku, 續く)、つづける (tsuzukeru, 續ける)
Nanori: つぐ (tsugu)

Korean

Hanja

續 (eumhun 이을 속 (ieul sok))

hanja form^? of 속 (“continuation”)

Compounds

계속 (繼續, gyesok, “continuously”)
지속 (持續, jisok, “continuation, sustainment”)

Vietnamese

Han character

續: Hán Nôm readings: tục

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