to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition; forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
trad. 繼往開來
Also written 繼往開來【jì wǎng kāi lái】
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4继
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to continue, to follow after, to go on with, to succeed, to inherit, then, afterwards
- Pinyin
- jì
- Traditional
- 繼
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 30911 of 2500
往
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to go (in a direction), to, towards, (of a train) bound for, past, previous
- Pinyin
- wǎng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1074 of 2500
开
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to open (transitive or intransitive), (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start, to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run, to boil, to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc), (directional complement) away; off, carat (gold), abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2], abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
- Pinyin
- kāi
- Traditional
- 開
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 467 of 2500
来
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to come, (used as a substitute for a more specific verb), hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]), ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]), for the past (amount of time), (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]), (between two verbs) in order to, (after a round number) approximately, (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- Pinyin
- lái
- Traditional
- 來
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 33 of 2500