Chinese symbol for “ensue”

接着

jiē zhe

Traditional: 接著

to catch and hold on; to continue; to go on to do sth; to follow

The closest CC-CEDICT match for ensue is 接着 (jiē zhe), defined as: to catch and hold on; to continue; to go on to do sth; to follow; to carry on; then.

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Characters and stroke order

接 jiē

to connect, to join; to receive, to meet, to answer the phone

radical 64 ⼿ · 11 strokes

着 zhe

to make a move, to take action

radical 109 ⽬ · 12 strokes

Traditional forms

著 zhe

Related words

Other words that share a character with 接着.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
直接	zhí jiē	directly; direct
接受	jiē shòu	to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce
链接 (鏈接)	liàn jiē	to link; to catenate; link (on a web page); hyperlink
接触 (接觸)	jiē chù	to touch; to contact
接近	jiē jìn	to approach; to get close to
连接 (連接)	lián jiē	to link; to join; to connect
随着 (隨著)	suí zhe	along with; in the wake of
有着 (有著)	yǒu zhe	to have; to possess

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.