继 jì
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
继父
jìfù
stepfather
Characters in this word
父 fù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 父 — father, dad
- Made of
- 八 eight 乂 to govern
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 她起初很难接受继父的关心，直到发现他从不试图取代生父的位置。 Tā qǐchū hěn nán jiēshòu jìfù de guānxīn, zhídào fāxiàn tā cóng bù shìtú qǔdài shēngfù de wèizhi. At first she found it hard to accept her stepfather's care, until she realised that he never tried to replace her biological father.
- 继父每天开车送我去上学。 Jìfù měi tiān kāichē sòng wǒ qù shàngxué. My stepfather drives me to school every day.
- 小明的继父是个厨师，周末常做好吃的饭菜。 Xiǎo Míng de jìfù shì ge chúshī, zhōumò cháng zuò hǎochī de fàncài. Xiao Ming's stepfather is a cook and often makes delicious meals on weekends.
Related words
- 继续 jìxù to continue
- 继承 jìchéng to inherit; to carry on
- 继 jì following; after
- 继而 jì'ér subsequently; thereupon
- 继母 jìmǔ stepmother
- 前赴后继 qiánfùhòujì to advance wave upon wave; to press forward one after another
- 相继 xiāngjì one after another; in succession
- 夜以继日 yèyǐjìrì day and night; around the clock
- 父母 fùmǔ parents
- 父亲 fùqīn father
- 师父 shīfu master, teacher
- 伯父 bófù father's elder brother; uncle