续
續xù
#552 most
frequent character
to continue, to replenish
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
续 joins 纟 silk threads with 卖 yù, a sound part, suggesting things tied together. The first sense was to join or be joined. It grew to continue, then successive, then to add more. Here 卖 is yù, not the word “to sell”.
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